On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 04:48:16AM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > During stress testing we want to cover as much code paths as possible > fsstress is very good for this purpose. But it has expandable nature > (disk usage almost continually grow). So once it goes in no ENOSPC > condition it will be where till the end. But by running 'dd' writers > in parallel we can regularly trigger ENOSPC but only for a limited > periods of time because each time it opens the same file with O_TRUNC. This fails for me on XFS because the fsstress process has already finished by the time you try to kill it: --- 266.out 2011-11-02 19:46:27.000000000 +0000 +++ 266.out.bad 2011-11-02 19:48:33.000000000 +0000 @@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ Run fsstress Run dd writers in parallel +./266: line 60: kill: (3403) - No such process -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
