[LTP] [PATCH 2/3] Allow acquiring multiple loop devices

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Mon Feb 10 16:48:01 CET 2020


Hi,

> > > > BTW IMHO DEV_FILE should be #define DEV_FILE "test_dev.%d.img", where %d would
> > > > be PID to fix clash when tests run in paralel (e.g. mkswap01.sh and df01.sh).
> > > > I'll send a patch tomorrow, based on this one.

> > > Huh, do we even attempt to support parallel runs at this point? I doubt
> > > so.
> > No, but I'd expect it'd be nice to have this support for runltp-ng. Or not?

> We will fix this, when we get there. Also thinking of it the file that
> is backing the device is actually created in the test temporary
> directory, which has unique name anyways.
If I remember it correctly, the file was in /tmp directory (the default)
(probably before creating temporary directory and cd into it).
I was really able to crash on tests, when running 2 in paralel.

Kind regards,
Petr


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