Re: [PATCH] formalize and fix disabling the RT subvolume

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 12:54:07 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.fstests,org.kernel.vger.linux-xfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 11:40:18AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 01:35:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Various test unset SCRATCH_RTDEV to avoid dealing with metadata
> > allocations for the RT subvolume in the main device or differences
> > in RT subvolume behavior.  Besides being rather ad-hoc, this unset
> > also fails to disable the internal RT zoned subvolume.
> > 
> > Add a _disable_scratch_realtime helper that not only unsets
> > SCRATCH_RTDEV, but also disables the zoned allocator and with
> > that the internal RT subvolume.
> 
> What if we want to run these tests on the internal rt volume?

Then we need to stop disabling the RT volume for them..