[PATCH 2/3] xfstests 265: add a prealloc and reserve test

[WuBo]

On 11/16/2011 03:08 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:21:13PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
>> Hi Wu Bo,
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:09:00AM +0800, WuBo wrote:
>>> This test is for preallocation test. If the disk is full, just with a prealloc
>>> file has some free space that prealloc early. We need to check whether the write
>>> to the free space is success or not.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wu Bo <Wu.Bo at cn.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> This test is failing for me because I don't have fallocate installed.  I
>> suggest the test could to be changed to check for binaries it uses,
>> possibly the version of those binaries, and then not run unless the
>> right ones are installed.  But the best I can do right now is make a
>> note of it.
> 
> It might be even better to just use the xfs_io falloc command as we
> generally expect an uptodate xfs_io for use with xfstests.

Got it.

thanks,
wubo

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