linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] - fix swap sanity tests in blkid, and blkid tests

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 00:32:12 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] - fix swap sanity tests in blkid, and blkid	tests

On May 12, 2008  13:26 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> One one other required change, though; mkswap requires at least
> 10 pages of swap, so the image needs to be increased to 10x64k
> if mkswap is to succeed...
> 
> Maybe it'd be better to just dd it out on the fly?

Probably, yes.  Little point in bunzipping bytes that you are just
going to overwrite...

>  	bunzip2 < $SRCDIR/tests/$i.img.bz2 > tests/tmp/test.img.$$
> +	# swap is native-endian, so regenerate before testing
> +	if [ "$i" == "swap0" ]; then
> +		mkswap -v0 tests/tmp/test.img.$$ > /dev/null
> +	elif [ "$i" == "swap1" ]; then
> +		mkswap -v1 -L SWAP-TEST -U 8ff8e77f-8553-485e-8656-58be67a81666 tests/tmp/test.img.$$ >/dev/null
> +	fi

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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