Re: [PATCH] common: log mkfs output in _test_streams

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

On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 08:20:47AM -0600, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Log the mkfs output to allow debugging the mkfs paramters,
> especially when mkfs and thus the test fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>  common/filestreams | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/filestreams b/common/filestreams
> index 459de8c6b6a6..0b11b6644977 100644
> --- a/common/filestreams
> +++ b/common/filestreams
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ _test_streams() {
>  	# Skip these tests on zoned file systems as filestreams don't work
>  	# with the zoned allocator, and the operation below would force it into
>  	# the tiny data section only used for metadata anyway.
> -	_try_scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1 || _fail "mkfs failed"
> +	_try_scratch_mkfs_xfs >$seqres.full 2>&1 || _fail "mkfs failed"

This should >>$seqres.full so that you don't obliterate whatever might
already be in that file.  Otherwise this sounds like a good idea to me.

--D

>  	_scratch_mount
>  	_require_xfs_scratch_non_zoned
>  	_scratch_unmount 2>/dev/null
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
>