[LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/statx01: loosen the stx_blocks check
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
Wed Jul 24 13:57:35 CEST 2019
Hi!
> > Why 128?
>
> Was just restoring it to what it was previously.
>
> > Can't we rather multiply the buff.stx_blksize/512 by 16?
>
> That would work for ext4, but should this be loosened further to give
> some headroom in case some FS preallocates more? Or is it preferable to
> keep the test as strict as possible and loosen it when/if failures happen?
That is hard to decide. I would go for the lowest limit that works for
everybody.
Also for me ext4 allocates only one block for the file no matter what I
do, something has to be tuned differently in your setup.
Isn't it just a difference in the block size and inode size?
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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