On 04/04/11 10:08, Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 04/04/11 06:13, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Running the new fiemap-empty test uses 600MB of disk space via >>> fallocate, and in so doing caused failure in unrelated tests that >>> were running in parallel on a small file system. Rather than >>> simply running fallocate (which allocates the space, inducing >>> disk full when it fails), skip the test if there is less than >>> 800MB of free space, as computed via stat and awk. > > Thanks for looking. > >> Oops sorry. >> Maybe worth noting is that stat works at a lower level, > > Not sure what you mean? Both use statfs. Oops right. df uses f_bavail, so perhaps it might be better to use %a rather than %f with `stat`? This fallocate() behavior is annoying anyway, as I'm not sure when it's useful, except for filling up a file system. It seems like a this would be useful. #define FALLOC_FL_FULL_SIZE 0x03 /* allocate all or nothing */ cheers, Pádraig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
