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Re: [Bug-tar] sparse05.at with low disk space causes all later tests to
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] sparse05.at with low disk space causes all later tests to fail |
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Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:34:07 +0200 |
Hi Nathan,
> I see that when the test is able to run successfully, BIGFILE's real
> size is 9.76+ GiB ... and when it fails it can easily take more than 10
> minutes to fill up the partition before aborting. So I wonder if there
> is any (portable) way to have the test check for free space right at the
> start, and SKIP without trying to create BIGFILE if there's isn't
> enough?
There's hardly any. The only solution I can think of is to have genfile
remove the file before exiting, if it got errno==ENOSPC when trying to
write.
Regards,
Sergey