Hi Nathan, > I see that when the test is able to run successfully, BIGFILE's real > size is 9.76+ GiB ... and when it fails it can easily take more than 10 > minutes to fill up the partition before aborting. So I wonder if there > is any (portable) way to have the test check for free space right at the > start, and SKIP without trying to create BIGFILE if there's isn't > enough?
There's hardly any. The only solution I can think of is to have genfile remove the file before exiting, if it got errno==ENOSPC when trying to write. Regards, Sergey
