[parted-devel] [PATCH] Detect Ext4 (Parted Alioth #188)

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Colin Watson wrote:
>> I thought since we were talking about loopback devices that this would 
>> need root access anyway, but XFS is a worthy alternative too that I'd 
>> not thought of and should be workable on most distros. I guess whichever 
>> is easier for the test at hand really.
> 
> I suspect that Jim is suggesting that the test should just try to create
> the file, and if it happens to be running on a filesystem that supports
> sparse files bigger than 16TB, then it can run the full test, otherwise
> it can mark it as "missing support" - rather than creating and mounting
> a loopback device as part of the test suite.
> 

Ahh, gotcha - makes sense, thanks!

Bryn.