GitLab CI test job failing with new mkfs.xfs error "Filesystem must be larger than 300MB."

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From 27-Nov-2022 the alpine_test GitLab CI job started failing,
reporting errors creating XFS file systems in the
test_SupportedFileSystems unit test like this:

    [ RUN      ] My/SupportedFileSystemsTest.Create/xfs
    test_SupportedFileSystems.cc:501: Failure
    Value of: m_fs_object->create(m_partition, m_operation_detail)
      Actual: false
    Expected: true
    Operation details:
    mkfs.xfs -f -L '' '/builds/GNOME/gparted/tests/test_SupportedFileSystems.img'    00:00:00  (ERROR)

    Filesystem must be larger than 300MB.
    ...