Re: [PATCH] fstests: fix error redirection in generic/256

Eryu Guan
2016-11-12T18:39:46Z

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:47:20AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Not sure if my shell is the problem here, but I need this explicit
> redirection to ignore the error output from mkdir and xfs_io, otherwise
> the test fails due to the error messages from these commands.

That's weird, from bash manpage, "&>" should be equivalent to "> ... 2>&1"

There're many other tests use "&>" as well, do you see such failures
from other tests, such as generic/347?

Thanks,
Eryu