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Message-ID: <20140908095000.GD30012@dastard>
Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:50:00 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	fstests@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, wangxg.fnst@...fujitsu.com,
	eguan@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: speed up _require_ext4_bigalloc and
 _require_ext4_mkfs_bigalloc

On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 10:06:08PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> We don't need to make a full-sized file system in order to test
> whether "mkfs.ext4 -O bigalloc" works.

Why wouldn't you just use the "-n" option? If bigalloc is not
supported, that should still fail, right?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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