Re: [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] API: Allow to use xfs filesystems < 300 MB

From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: Petr Vorel <pvorel@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] [RFC PATCH 1/1] API: Allow to use xfs filesystems < 300 MB
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:30:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yv4i0gWiHTkfWB5m@yuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yv4eiT5L+M7dMkQ5@pevik>

Hi!
> > 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.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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