[LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] API: Allow to use xfs filesystems < 300 MB

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> > I'm starting to wonder if we should start tracking minimal FS size per
> > filesystem since btrfs and xfs will likely to continue to grow and with
> > that we will end up disabling the whole fs related testing on embedded
> > boards with a little disk space. If we tracked that per filesystem we
> > would be able to skip a subset of filesystems when there is not enough
> > space. The downside is obviously that we would have to add a bit more
> > complexity to the test library.
> 
> Maybe I could for start rewrite v2 (I've sent it without Cc kernel devs now it's
> mainly LTP internal thing) as it just to have 300 MB for XFS and 256 MB for the
> rest. That would require to specify filesystem when acquiring device (NULL would
> be for the default filesystem), that's would be worth if embedded folks counter
> each MB. It'd be nice to hear from them.

The 256MB limit was set previously due to btrfs, I bet that we can
create smaller images for ext filesytems for example.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz