linux-ext4 - Re: Increase xattr space by allocating contiguous xattr blocks

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Message-ID: <4ECB2ADE.3010007@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:53:50 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
CC:	Yu Jian <yujian@...mcloud.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Increase xattr space by allocating contiguous xattr blocks

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On 11/21/11 9:08 AM, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Currently, one of the primary xattr tests that is in xfstests (#62)
> doesn't work on ext4 at all, since it assumes that files are returned
> by readdir in file creation order for newly created directory.   So
> the lack of test coverage is something that would have to be
> addressed if we want to do major surgery to the xattr code.  I'd
> suggest creating a new series of test from scratch, since I don't
> believe test #62 can be easily reworked so that it will work under
> ext4.

Are you sure?

# grep supported 062
_supported_fs generic

Hm, but it doesn't actually work does it.  :/

Maybe we could do find | sort | xargs ... but I guess it's explicitly supposed to test the getfattr recursive code.

- -Eric
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