From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CC50339A8; Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776122927; cv=none; b=TGAvq9TPElc+w0YMnpgtijn6V19iAIY1EOuvA8WgeERu09GzFB4rar52Ie0AokTDR9d2iSNmrBt8M4R8KAme9Mc2v0e7Ggf1h8dZEJuLWdE3PnyItDiXpOqs6ZCbOG6QvnVBuNlKv1mFqQatLJXyVCVwkUK4uxOPSvlWxyoKCC0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776122927; c=relaxed/simple; bh=yWW/LMULNo+T/K/tw2mtxV/ndC8duUlrxt1+c2s4wZk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Fe0KALEpLaNW+ttTeYIEpQvPrNDpWI6slI6oPcxkbKCT8aU5wOcqdnMkLTHu/2EUyQQx5DSPjOqpVne11HYoZQwwOyFJY23LE+gVKODYlxK8jpq9tP//h3bKeK78rsCLff+a0jHdyEf8x41T9TzqCExobcKCMaCA3N9/AsayPxc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Uge0uhKK; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Uge0uhKK" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19042C2BCAF; Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:28:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1776122927; bh=yWW/LMULNo+T/K/tw2mtxV/ndC8duUlrxt1+c2s4wZk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Uge0uhKKTDR30Uwau+X7fwdPCZ7lPqatDjdt9LbK1RwlqJUykbzYw39mNHK8rNIW4 BrbssYPfP3T89+/Aif/NezScnaayxyH3KLgs3SM35dhC6BbbWP4RVJcgON4j+CtI5P 4B5y0yidwj7THwaLSnW5MxM6iQsQ3LlbZQLyRhEKYUz2ctGeztUhtdxSFP4VztWz1m 60gwm2lYBjWLQDgBIr+Tp8shsBkrXa3tYGooSndzb45RYn2vpr54HfY/BeV9NvJ720 dQtB0hWDUYWa1k9WV1IBVZhOcdLEvmWf5vHANw+eo81IbOrV4Qq2SaUIQJUO9PDsYk +QPDhSs1xnQkw== Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:28:46 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Theodore Tso Cc: Ojaswin Mujoo , Zorro Lang , fstests@vger.kernel.org, fdmanana@suse.com, ritesh.list@gmail.com, naohiro.aota@wdc.com, wqu@suse.com, Disha Goel , linux-ext4 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] generic/765: Ignore mkfs warning Message-ID: <20260413232846.GC148064@frogsfrogsfrogs> References: <20260410165435.GU6212@frogsfrogsfrogs> <20260413162120.GV6212@frogsfrogsfrogs> <20260413204215.GA5461@macsyma-wired.lan> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: fstests@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260413204215.GA5461@macsyma-wired.lan> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 04:42:15PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > > The output can get corrupted with warnings like below because clustersize > > > > > > more than 16xbs is experimental: > > > > > > > > > > > > + 16 times the block size is considered experimental > > > > > > > > > > > > Hence pipe these to seqres.full to avoid false negatives. > > You could also suppress the warnings using the -q option, for example: > > mke2fs -Fq -t ext4 -O bigalloc,quota -b 4096 -C 131072 /tmp/foo.img 4G > > > > Futher, mke2fs has multiple instances where we print warnings to stderr, > > > should we go and fix all of them as well? > > > > "stderr" meaning "standard error", I'd say that errors are anything that > > prohibits the format from completing, and only errors should go there. > > Sure, I'll accept those changes. But adding -q will allow the test to > pass using older versions of e2fsprogs, while still allowing stderr to > go out the expected output. Aha, maybe that's why I've never run into this when QA'ing fstests. --D