From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
automated-testing@yoctoproject.org, ltp@lists.linux.it,
automated-testing@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [LTP] [Automated-testing] [RFC PATCH 1/1] API: Allow to use xfs filesystems < 300 MB
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:55:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUMBjCTwPu7wxrnagXnbyVxxmXN+vHmML0Lr=SyrTw0nQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yv4i0gWiHTkfWB5m@yuki>
Hi Cyril,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 1:28 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > I'm starting to wonder if we should start tracking minimal FS size per
> > > filesystem since btrfs and xfs will likely to continue to grow and with
> > > that we will end up disabling the whole fs related testing on embedded
> > > boards with a little disk space. If we tracked that per filesystem we
> > > would be able to skip a subset of filesystems when there is not enough
> > > space. The downside is obviously that we would have to add a bit more
> > > complexity to the test library.
> >
> > Maybe I could for start rewrite v2 (I've sent it without Cc kernel devs now it's
> > mainly LTP internal thing) as it just to have 300 MB for XFS and 256 MB for the
> > rest. That would require to specify filesystem when acquiring device (NULL would
> > be for the default filesystem), that's would be worth if embedded folks counter
> > each MB. It'd be nice to hear from them.
>
> The 256MB limit was set previously due to btrfs, I bet that we can
> create smaller images for ext filesytems for example.
Yeah, we used to have ext2 root file systems that fit on 1440 KiB floppies.
IIRC, ext3 does have a minimum size of 32 MiB or so.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-18 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-17 20:40 [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] API: Allow to use xfs filesystems < 300 MB Petr Vorel
2022-08-17 23:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-08-18 5:08 ` Amir Goldstein
2022-08-18 9:45 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-18 9:01 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-18 9:53 ` Cyril Hrubis
2022-08-18 11:12 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-18 11:30 ` Cyril Hrubis
2022-08-18 11:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2022-08-19 19:28 ` [LTP] [Automated-testing] " Petr Vorel
2022-08-20 2:37 ` Li Wang
2022-08-22 9:36 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-20 2:52 ` [LTP] " Li Wang
2022-08-24 10:21 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-29 1:45 ` Li Wang
2024-04-03 14:24 ` Petr Vorel
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