Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add TCK script for verifying disk based storage pools
Eric Blake wrote:
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> +# List of host block devices that the test suite can trash all
> +# data on, for purposes of testing. You have been warned !
Indeed!
The intrepid souls who run these tests might appreciate a crosscheck.
Let them specify more than just a block device name, where it's
way too easy to introduce a typo and clobber something important.
Potential crosscheck-able data:
- device size
- device "model"
Both are reported by parted -s $device.
In clobbering a device via Parted's test suite, I require a
<device_name,size> pair. Then, when I clobber things on my 1 or 2GB
USB key, there's no risk I'll accidentally destroy data on "real"
disks,
since the real ones are all far larger.