Re: [Lsf] [PATCH] xfstests-bld: Simplify determination of number of CPUs in build-all

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On 4/3/14, 1:21 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

>>> The various test scripts do need to be able to find the device where
>>> the file system lives, and parsing /etc/fstab would be awkward.  So if
>>> your comment is that either the /etc/fstab entry shouldn't be
>>> required, or the xfstests runtime environment should be able to derive
>>> $SCRATCH_DEV automatically from $SCRATCH_MNT, or vice versa, instead
>>
>> I guess I don't know why you'd expect to derive one from the other...
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> If $SCRATCH_MNT is specified, then the line in /etc/fstab is
> unnecessary.  If $SCRATCH_MNT is not specified, then /etc/fstab will
> do the trick.
> 
> What does not work is specifying $SCRATCH_DIR [sic] but not adding an
> fstab entry.  Oops.

Oh, I see.

I'd never really thought about xfstests devices as "part of the system" -
since they're constantly scribbled on, re-made, etc, and managed wholly
by xfstests (at least the scratch device) - so the notion of using fstab
was just outside my realm of expected behaviors.  :)

-Eric

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