Re: [PATCH] xfs_growfs: allow mounted device node as argument

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On 10/29/19 8:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 08:24:50AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/19 2:15 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:23:51PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>>> I can clone tests/xfs/289 to do tests of similar permutations for
>>>> device names.
>>>
>>> Can we just add the device name based tests to xfs/289?
>>
>> Could do, I was hesitant to make a once-passing test start failing on older
>> userspace. (maybe we should formalize a policy for this sort of thing)
> 
> Well, it is supposed to work for all but one release, right?

Pointing it at a device has been broken since 4.12, so broken for about
a dozen releases / ~2+ years.

-Eric






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