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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
