[PATCH] xfsteststs: get fsstress DIO working on non-xfs filesystems

[Dave Chinner]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:46:35PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Pretty sure all DIO IO fails in fsstress today since XFS_IOC_DIOINFO
> fails.  If so, rather than just bailing out on the op, assign
> some sane default DIO parameters.
> 
> This falls down for 4k sector devices but not really sure how to get
> the underlying sector size easily from here; I think we can live
> with this for now.

ioctl(fd, BLKSSZGET, ...) perhaps? And then if that fails, just hard
code it?

> hch suggested moving XFS_IOC_DIOINFO up higher in the vfs, that's
> probably a good idea in the long run.

Yeah, that makes sense to do.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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