Re: [PATCH] generic/258: check filesystem support for negative timestamps

[Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 08:28:40PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:11 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > Some filesystems do not support negative c/m/atime timestamps.  And for
> > these filesystems, generic/258 will fail.  Since there's currently no way
> > to check sb->s_time_min from userspace, this patch adds a new common/rc
> > function _require_negative_timestamps() that will _notrun depending on the
> > $FSTYP variable.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>
> 
> Looks fine,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

Hi Eryu,

I forgot Cc'ing you in the initial email.  Has this patch fell between the
cracks, or is it not really acceptable?

Cheers,
--
Luis

> 
> > ---
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm only adding 'ceph' to the _require_negative_timestamps() case because
> > that was the only filesystem with s_time_min = 0 that I was able to test.
> > However, a simple grep indicates there are a few other filesystems that
> > would also be required there (e.g. nfs version < 4).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Luis
> >
> >  common/rc         | 8 ++++++++
> >  tests/generic/258 | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> > index 0306e93cb1ca..067f30cecde7 100644
> > --- a/common/rc
> > +++ b/common/rc
> > @@ -4157,6 +4157,14 @@ _check_xfs_scrub_does_unicode() {
> >         return 0
> >  }
> >
> > +_require_negative_timestamps() {
> > +       case "$FSTYP" in
> > +       ceph)
> > +               _notrun "$FSTYP does not support negative timestamps"
> > +               ;;
> > +       esac
> > +}
> > +
> >  init_rc
> >
> >  ################################################################################
> > diff --git a/tests/generic/258 b/tests/generic/258
> > index 68b8155d4a9f..dab1a476ed20 100755
> > --- a/tests/generic/258
> > +++ b/tests/generic/258
> > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ trap "_cleanup ; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
> >  _supported_fs generic
> >  _supported_os Linux
> >  _require_test
> > +_require_negative_timestamps
> >
> >  TESTFILE=$TEST_DIR/timestamp-test.txt
> >