linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 5/8] xfstests: Add fallocate zero range operation to fsstress

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Message-ID: <5310C9F8.20009@sandeen.net>
Date:	Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:40:08 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
CC:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] xfstests: Add fallocate zero range operation to fsstress

On 2/28/14, 10:11 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> This commit adds fzero operation support for fsstress, which is meant to
> exercise fallocate FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE support.
> 
> Also reorganise the common fallocate code into a single do_fallocate()
> function and use flags use the right mode.
> 
> Also in order to make more obvious which fallocate mode fsstress is
> testing translate fallocate flags into human readable strings.

Can you enhance that so that if it's passed a flag which isn't
in the known array, it prints the leftover values?  Otherwise
they are silently dropped, which might be confusing.

Handling the case where a flag is not in the array would future-proof
it, I think.

-Eric

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