[LTP] [PATCH v1 1/1] test_robind: add "-f" mkfs option for xfs and btrfs

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Tue May 24 17:26:22 CEST 2016


Hi!
> Alternative would be to zero-erase first blocks of LTP_BIG_DEV
> in runltp, but I'm not sure we want to assume that all tests
> are going to write over it.
> 
> I found only 3 tests using LTP_BIG_DEV, this is the only
> one that is using xfs/btrfs, the other two are ext3/4.

Or we can move the dd that erases first blocks from tst_acquire_device()
to tst_mkfs().

Or we can create an API function to get the path to big device and erase
it there...

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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