From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Run fsstress for a short time to generate test data to replicate on the
scratch device so that we don't blow out the test runtimes on
unintentionally copying .git directories or large corefiles from the
developer's systems, etc.
Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tests/generic/251 | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tests/generic/251 b/tests/generic/251
index b4ddda10cef403..ec486c277c6828 100755
--- a/tests/generic/251
+++ b/tests/generic/251
@@ -173,13 +173,11 @@ function run_process() {
nproc=$((4 * LOAD_FACTOR))
-# Copy $here to the scratch fs and make coipes of the replica. The fstests
-# output (and hence $seqres.full) could be in $here, so we need to snapshot
-# $here before computing file checksums.
+# Use fsstress to create a directory tree with some variability
content=$SCRATCH_MNT/orig
mkdir -p $content
-cp -axT $here/ $content/
-
+FSSTRESS_ARGS=$(_scale_fsstress_args -p 4 -d $content -n 1000 $FSSTRESS_AVOID)
+$FSSTRESS_PROG $FSSTRESS_ARGS >> $seqres.full
mkdir -p $tmp
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