[PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Wed Mar 3 16:31:22 CST 2010
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:56:19AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > + killall -9 dd > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> This seems a bit dangerous. I have at least one old system that
> uses dd to continously read the kernel message buffer in the
> background, and there's tons of other potential dd uses.
I only put it there to make sure they all died when I ^C'd out of a
test run while testing the test. I forgot to remove it - I'll drop
it from the patch.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
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