Re: [PATCH 5/9] check: document mkfs.xfs reliance on fstests exports

[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]



On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 01:21:45PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are a number of fstests that employ special (and now unsupported)
> XFS filesystem configurations to perform testing in a controlled
> environment.  The presence of the QA_CHECK_FS and MSGVERB variables are
> used by mkfs.xfs to detect that it's running inside fstests, which
> enables the unsupported configurations.  Nobody else should be using
> filesystems with tiny logs, non-redundant superblocks, or smaller than
> the (new) minimum supported size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

looks fine, and answers a question I had looking at some of the
mkfs modifications you've proposed.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystems Development]     [Linux NFS]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux