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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:31:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100303223122.GA14317@discord.disaster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100303125619.GA26672@infradead.org>

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:56:19AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > +	killall -9 dd > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> This seems a bit dangerous.  I have at least one old system that
> uses dd to continously read the kernel message buffer in the
> background, and there's tons of other potential dd uses.

I only put it there to make sure they all died when I ^C'd out of a
test run while testing the test. I forgot to remove it - I'll drop
it from the patch.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-03 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03  6:19 [PATCH 0/3] xfsqa: new tests and fixes Dave Chinner
2010-03-03  6:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser Dave Chinner
2010-03-03 12:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-03 22:31     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-03-04  7:57       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-03  6:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfsqa: fix size specification for scratch mkfs Dave Chinner
2010-03-03 12:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-03 16:21     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-03-03 22:56     ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-03  6:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfsqa: Add fiemap exerciser Dave Chinner
2010-03-03 12:58   ` Christoph Hellwig

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