[LTP] [PATCH] mkfs: force block size to 1024 for ext3 and ext4

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Wed May 12 15:55:45 CEST 2021


Hi,

[Cc Jan]

> Hi!
> > > > /etc/mke2fs.conf will use 1024 block size for small filesystems, which are
> > > > between 3M and 512M. However, on recent versions of Ubuntu, this
> > > > configuration has changed and thet default blocksize is 4096 even for small
> > > > filesystems.

> > > > Force the blocksize to 1024 on ext3 and ext4 filesystems, which will lead
> > > > to the expected results, as journals will take only 1M.

> > > IMHO it'd be better to keep the default, because that covers what end users
> > > actually use.

> > One alternative to forcing the block size is accouting for the journal blocks,
> > but, then, that needs to consider the block size. I think my approach is more
> > simple. We could restrict it to the smaller 16M filesystem, though.

> > What do you think?

> I guess that we should merge your fix in order to have the test working
> for the upcomming release. Then we can discuss if this should be fixed
> differently or not.
Acked-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

Kind regards,
Petr


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