[PATCH 2/3] xfsqa: fix size specification for scratch mkfs

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Mar 3 06:58:09 CST 2010


On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:19:21PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> When making a specifically sized scratch filesystem, we need to
> calculate the size rather than assigning the caclculation expression
> to a variable and passing that into the _scratch_mkfs_sized
> function. Currently sized filesystems are failing to be made and the
> code is falling back to full sized filesystems so we are not testing
> enospc issues correctly.

This seems rather fragile.  Maybe instead of calculating the bignums
which I suspect are the problem could we pass symbolic values like 104M
in and parse them in _scratch_mkfs_sized?




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