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Re: [patch] xfsqa 073 - don't host loopback images in /tmp

from [Christoph Hellwig] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch] xfsqa 073 - don't host loopback images in /tmp
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:58 -0400
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@xxxxxxx>, xfs-oss <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:32:55AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> /tmp might be small, might not support files larger than 2GB,
> etc, so trying to host loopback images of 100GB filesystems
> will break in some situations. We should use $TEST_DIR for the
> images.
> 
> Note: remounting of loopback images has a major bug (in mount)
> that "leaks" loopback device references. Hence all the hackery
> with losetup to work around this.

Looks good.
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