On 2017-07-17 13:31, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 17.07.2017 um 12:49 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben: >> On 17 July 2017 at 11:39, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> Only today I noticed again that two recently merged pull requests broke >>> qemu-iotests cases, so I must assume that apart from some block >>> maintainers, nobody runs it regularly. >> >> If "make check" doesn't run it, it doesn't get run :-) >> I actually looked into trying to run qemu-iotests tests >> for the recent patches I sent for vpc and vmdk image format >> handler fixes, but I couldn't get it to do anything sensible >> and I couldn't find any documentation, so I gave up and >> assumed that "make check" plus manual testing was good enough... > > I think we had it in 'make check' for a while, but I seem to remember > that people complained about things like the disk space that some of the > tests needed for temporary files, and some exotic systems didn't support > sparse files or something like that.
Wasn't that exotic system HFS+ on OS X/macOS? As far as I'm informed, macOS has recently switched to APFS which does have sparse files (and I think they have automatically converted running systems to APFS). Max
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