linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 09/12] xfs/521: require a real SCRATCH

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Message-ID: <20251211045838.GE26257@lst.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:58:38 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Zorro Lang <zlang@...nel.org>,
	Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>,
	Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...e.com>, fstests@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] xfs/521: require a real SCRATCH_RTDEV

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 11:54:27AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 
> Hrmm, I wonder if this test should check that SCRATCH_RTDEV is at least
> 400m?  But I guess the old code didn't check that the loop file doesn't
> ENOSPC (which is another good reason to get rid of the fakery) so...

Yeah, I didn't add a new check.  But adding a _require_scratch_size
shouldn't hurt, so I'll look into that for the next version.