[blivet] make it possible to run blivet's unit tests again

Anne Mulhern amulhern at redhat.com
Sat Feb 15 12:27:04 UTC 2014


What is the meaning of "sparse" in this context?

- mulhern

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl at redhat.com>
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> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 8:13:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [blivet] make it possible to run blivet's unit tests again
> 
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:42:33PM -0600, David Lehman wrote:
> > It might be worthwhile to do more than skip that udev test when
> > /dev/loop1 is not present, but I'm not sure. I'd be open to using
> > another block device that is more likely to be there, eg: sda.
> 
> We should just make sparse loopback disks for testing. Anything that
> looks like a real system disk is bound to eat your system eventually.
> 
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