xfstests 258: Test xfs fs creation with fs size close to 4 TB

[Alex Elder]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 10:30 +0200, Boris Ranto wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 11:54 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:52 +0200, Boris Ranto wrote:
> > > mkfs.xfs failed to create xfs filesystems with 4 TB minus few bytes due
> > > to round up error in mkfs.xfs code.
> > > 
> > > This test case is a regression test for the fs creation problem.
> > > 
> > > I've tested the test case with mkfs.xfs patch (in the form posted by
> > > Eric Sandeen) and the test passed (and therefore the patch fixed the
> > > issue for me).
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Boris Ranto <branto at redhat.com>
> > 
> > This looks OK, but I'm a little concerned about the
> > shell's ability to handle > 32-bit values in its
> > arithmetic expressions (within $((...))).
> > 
> > Using ${fourtb} works for me, but I just don't know
> > whether it is written somewhere that bash always
> > supports 64-bit (or even arbitrary) precision values.
> > 
> > Do you know?
> > 
> > Same general concern goes for dd, but I am more inclined
> > to think it can handle large numbers.
> > 
> > Otherwise this looks good to me (though I haven't yet
> > tried it out).
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>
> > 
> > . . .
> > 
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> I'm not sure whether bash guarantees at least 64-bit precision values in
> its arithmetic operations.
> Therefore I suppose the values can be computed in advance in this case
> and the arithmetic operation can be simply left out:

This at least makes it so we only have to worry about
one program (dd) handling >32-bit values correctly.
Based on that alone I guess I prefer it.  However
there should be a comment that explains where the
numbers come from, i.e.:

# 4398046511103 = 2^42 - 1
# 4398046510592 = 2^42 - 512
# 4398046510080 = 2^42 - 1024
# 4398046510079 = 2^42 - 1025
# 4398046509056 = 2^42 - 2048
# 4398046507008 = 2^42 - 4096

If dd doesn't support numbers that big we aren't working
in an environment suitable for running xfstests.  So
at least from my perspective, this is good enough.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>