Re: [PATCH 4/6] generic/765: Ignore mkfs warning

[Zorro Lang <zorro.lang@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 09:54:35AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 12:06:04PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 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>
> 
> Seems fine, though I think I'd rather mke2fs get patched to fix this.
> 
> I'd let the maintainer decide if he wants this, but ... I'm not sure if
> he's actually going to receive this message. :/

Hi Darrick and folks,

I'm back.

I apologize for the silence these days. I had planned to do a release last
week, but a sudden big regional layoff and immediate cutoff of all connections
caught me completely off guard. Beyond losing my account, I lost everything on
the company servers, all my documents (including a book I was halfway through
writing), my code, and my entire environment for handling emails, patches, and
system workflows. (This is a painful reminder to never leave your things on
company server..)

Amidst the shock and grief, I am now struggling to rebuild and reconfigure my
local environment from scratch. I have redirected my zlang@kernel.org alias to
my personal email -- zorro.lang@gmail.com. *Please do not send any more emails
to my old zlang@redhat.com address*. 

Starting tomorrow, I will begin reviewing and merging last week's patches bit by
bit. I still need long time to get my environment and workflows back in order, in
the meantime, I will also be focusing my energy on finding a new job. So I
appreciate everyone's patience and understanding.

> 
> --D
> 
> > ---
> >  tests/generic/765 | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/generic/765 b/tests/generic/765
> > index 09be53db..b7cc70f1 100755
> > --- a/tests/generic/765
> > +++ b/tests/generic/765
> > @@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ test_atomic_writes()
> >      local bsize=$1
> >  
> >      get_mkfs_opts $bsize
> > -    _scratch_mkfs $mkfs_opts >> $seqres.full
> > +    _scratch_mkfs $mkfs_opts &>> $seqres.full || \
> > +        echo "mkfs $mkfs_opts failed"

Now for this patch, I think we can have it for unfixed e2fsprogs testing,
as this test case isn't related with this e2fsprogs "bug", except you hope
to uncover it by this test case :)

Reviewed-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@kernel.org>

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