Re: [PATCH 3/4] generic/765: Ignore mkfs warning

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 04:10:49PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> From: Super User <root@ltcrain119-lp6.ltc.tadn.ibm.com>

Who?

> This test validates atomic writes for all possible block sizes. In ext4, for
> smaller block sizes with configurations like:
> 
> export MKFS_OPTIONS="-O bigalloc,quota -b 65536 -C 131072"
> 
> The output can get corrupted with warnings like below because clustersize
> more than 16xbs is experimental:
> 
> + 16 times the block size is considered experimental

Er... a message that doesn't fail the mkfs is printed to stderr?
Maybe mke2fs should fix that...

> Hence pipe these to seqres.full to avoid false negatives.
> 
> Reported-by: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  tests/generic/765 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/generic/765 b/tests/generic/765
> index 4c768783..6794eb72 100755
> --- a/tests/generic/765
> +++ b/tests/generic/765
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ test_atomic_writes()
>      local bsize=$1
>  
>      get_mkfs_opts $bsize
> -    _scratch_mkfs $mkfs_opts >> $seqres.full
> +    _scratch_mkfs $mkfs_opts >> $seqres.full 2>&1

I think we still want to check that the format succeeded as a
precondition for the test round, right?

	_scratch_mkfs $mkfs_opts &>> $seqres.full || \
		echo "mkfs $mkfs_opts" failed"

--D

>      _scratch_mount
>  
>      test "$FSTYP" = "xfs" && _xfs_force_bdev data $SCRATCH_MNT
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
>