mkfs.ext4 will ask you if you are sure if you try to mkfs an entire disk instead of just a partition, so any xfstest that uses a scratch device and you specify a full disk will appear to hang because
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> The whole-disk test is pretty derpy anyway. Too bad -F overrides much more than just that, but this is probably a decent thing to do. Thanks, -Eric
Yeah, we've had to work around the whole-device check for years, because the 512-byte sector offset for the DOS partition table kills performance on RAID systems. Given that the kernel should hold th