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

[Jan Stancek]

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 3:55 PM Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> 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>

Fine by me (I don't have a better idea atm.)

>
> Kind regards,
> Petr
>