[parted-devel] [PATCH] mkpartfs ext2 2 10 would erroneously report "file system too small"

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Fri May 18 15:12:11 UTC 2007


Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:
>> Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
>>> test also on the library unittesting so we can know if the library
>>> isn't broken again too...
>>>
>>> Can you try?
>>
>> That would not be a good way to spend my limited time.
>>
>> Besides, why bother?
>> The above test exercises the affected code already, and since no one
>> will be changing the public command-line interface any time soon,
>> it should be more than enough to keep the bug from resurfacing.
>
> I personally don't like to have integration tests only from basic
> things. This specific case is handled by the library and then I think
> we ought to have tests for it too.

Then let's turn it around.
It's something you want, so would you like to give it a try?



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