Colin Watson wrote: >> I thought since we were talking about loopback devices that this would >> need root access anyway, but XFS is a worthy alternative too that I'd >> not thought of and should be workable on most distros. I guess whichever >> is easier for the test at hand really. > > I suspect that Jim is suggesting that the test should just try to create > the file, and if it happens to be running on a filesystem that supports > sparse files bigger than 16TB, then it can run the full test, otherwise > it can mark it as "missing support" - rather than creating and mounting > a loopback device as part of the test suite. >
Ahh, gotcha - makes sense, thanks! Bryn. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
