linux-ext4 - Re: tests: check backing filesystem can handle large file

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Message-ID: <20131203051254.GA11792@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 2013 00:12:54 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tests: check backing filesystem can handle large file

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:35:04PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> The new resize tests create 2TB test files, but tmpfs in kernels
> before 3.1 have a max file size of 256GB.  Ext3 may also have
> a size limit for smaller blocksize filesystems.
> 
> Fix the resize_test script to verify that $TMPFILE can be resized
> to the final test size, and if that fails try creating the file on
> the local filesystem instead of in $TMPDIR.  If that cannot hold
> the large filesystem, skip the test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
> Tested-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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