[PATCH v2] common: log mkfs output in _test_streams

[PATCH v2] common: log mkfs output in _test_streams

[Christoph Hellwig]

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>
---

Changes since v1:
 - append to  $seqres.full instead of overwriting it

 common/filestreams | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/filestreams b/common/filestreams
index 459de8c6b6a6..c40b33e4b0b8 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 2>$seqres.full 2>&1 || _fail "mkfs failed"
 	_scratch_mount
 	_require_xfs_scratch_non_zoned
 	_scratch_unmount 2>/dev/null
-- 
2.53.0

Re: [PATCH v2] common: log mkfs output in _test_streams

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 03:44:38PM +0200, 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>
> ---
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - append to  $seqres.full instead of overwriting it
> 
>  common/filestreams | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/filestreams b/common/filestreams
> index 459de8c6b6a6..c40b33e4b0b8 100644
> --- a/common/filestreams
> +++ b/common/filestreams
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ _test_streams() {
>  	# Skip these tests on zoned file systems as filestreams don't work
>  	# with the zoned allocator, and the operation below would force it into
>  	# the tiny data section only used for metadata anyway.
> -	_try_scratch_mkfs_xfs >/dev/null 2>&1 || _fail "mkfs failed"
> +	_try_scratch_mkfs_xfs 2>$seqres.full 2>&1 || _fail "mkfs failed"

                              ^^ this still truncates seqres.full

What you want here is:        2>>$seqres.full

--D

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