[LU-10263] tests: sanity-hsm: is make_small_sync really needed?

• Type: Question/Request
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Quentin Bouget
• Reporter: CEA

Description

Tests 228 and 405 are the only tests that use the make_small_sync() function in sanity-hsm.

Considering the function internally calls:

dd if=/dev/urandom ... conv=sync

That conv=sync means: "pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs"

And that /dev/urandom does not return short reads, and does not block.

I believe the usefulness of make_small_sync is questionable.