Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: new case to test inode allocations in post-growfs disk space

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 09:46:38AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:52:33AM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> > Make sure inodes can be allocated in new space added by xfs_growfs.
> > 
> > Regression test for
> > xfs: allow inode allocations in post-growfs disk space
....
> > +# Create files to consume free inodes in background
> > +(
> > +   i=0
> > +   while [ $i -lt 1000 ]; do
> > +           mkdir $SCRATCH_MNT/testdir_$i
> > +           create_file $SCRATCH_MNT/testdir_$i &
> > +           let i=$i+1
> > +   done
> > +) >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> > +
> > +# Grow fs at the same time, at least x4
> > +# doubling or tripling the size couldn't reproduce
> > +$XFS_GROWFS_PROG -D $((dblocks * 4)) $SCRATCH_MNT >>$seqres.full
> > +
> 
> Even though this is still relatively small based on what people probably
> typically test, we're still making assumptions about the size of the
> scratch device.

_require_fs_space $SCRATCH_MNT <size>

solves that problem. And in places we require 10GB of space, so a
few hundred MB isn't an issue.


-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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