Is the LVM dependency intentional? #11553
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I was working through the test scripts, cutting down the number of unnecessary execve calls, when I noticed a hardcoded path to |
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I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't used anymore, we definitely don't use it for any of our testing. It was added a long time ago as a way to facilitate testing with block devices (the loop device code in Linux used to have some problematic limits, but that's no longer the case). I wouldn't be at all opposed to removing |
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I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't used anymore, we definitely don't use it for any of our testing. It was added a long time ago as a way to facilitate testing with block devices (the loop device code in Linux used to have some problematic limits, but that's no longer the case). I wouldn't be at all opposed to removing
dmsetup
from thezfs-tests.sh
script entirely.