Re: [PATCH] generic/604: fix test to actually create dirty inodes

[Bill O'Donnell <billodo@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 04:21:50PM +0000, fdmanana@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> 
> The test case generic/604 aims to test a scenario where at unmount time we
> have many dirty inodes, however the test does not actually creates any
> files, because it calls xfs_io without the -f argument, so xfs_io fails
> but any error is ignored because stderr is redirected to /dev/null.
> 
> Fix this by passing -f to xfs_io and also stop redirecting stderr to
> /dev/null, so that in case of any unexpected failure creating files, the
> test fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
lgtm...
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>

> ---
>  tests/generic/604 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/generic/604 b/tests/generic/604
> index 3c6b76a4..9c53fd57 100755
> --- a/tests/generic/604
> +++ b/tests/generic/604
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ _require_scratch
>  _scratch_mkfs > /dev/null 2>&1
>  _scratch_mount
>  for i in $(seq 0 500); do
> -	$XFS_IO_PROG -c "pwrite 0 4K" $SCRATCH_MNT/$i >/dev/null 2>&1
> +	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite 0 4K" $SCRATCH_MNT/$i >/dev/null
>  done
>  _scratch_unmount &
>  _scratch_mount
> -- 
> 2.35.1
>