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Re: [PATCH 12/12] block: test fallocate for block devices

To: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] block: test fallocate for block devices
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:34:37 -0700
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, fstests@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:41:48PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> I think it's the right place to test it - we have all the
> infrastructure available to do it (i.e. xfs_io and various block
> devices) and we really need to make sure this stuff works,
> especially if we start to write filesystem code that depends on
> correct behaviour...

Ok.  But let's keep it outside of the auto group so we don't run purely
block device specific tests every time we do an xfstests run.

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