Re: ext4 xfstests results for 3.8 on Pandaboard ES (ARM)

[Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>]

* Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>:

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> > BEGIN TEST: Ext4 4k block w/nodelalloc, no flex_bg, and no extents Thu Feb 21
> > 15:41:27 EST 2013
> > Ran: 001 002 005 006 007 011 013 014 015 020 053 062 068 069 070 074 075 076
> >  077 079 083 088 089 091 100 105 112 113 117 120 123 124 125 126 127 128 129
> >  130 131 132 133 135 141 169 184 192 193 198 204 207 208 209 210 211 212 215
> >  219 221 224 225 226 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 239 240 245 246 247 248
> >  249 257 258 263 269 270 271 272 273 275 277 280 285 289 294
> > Failures: 125 285
> > END TEST: Ext4 4k block w/nodelalloc, no flex_bg, and no extents Thu Feb 21
> >  17:24:32 EST 2013
> > 
> > Xfstest 285 fails reliably for me on both ARM and x86-64 and only in this test
> > scenario.  I see the same failure on 3.7, so it's not a regression (however,
> > this failure doesn't appear in Ted's early 3.8-rc results).
> > 
> >     --- 285.out	2013-02-19 15:58:25.110665500 -0500
> >     +++ 285.out.bad	2013-02-21 17:23:45.156519882 -0500
> >     @@ -1 +1,3 @@
> >      QA output created by 285
> >     +seek sanity check failed!
> 
> This test case is used to test seek data/hole feature.  After 3.8 ext4
> has supported it.  But it will fail without extents feature because
> indirect-based file haven't unwritten extent.  Please check 285.full
> file, and you will see that test07 fails.
> 
> BTW, I am trying to fix this problem for xfstests.
> 
> Regards,
> 						- Zheng
> 

Hi Zheng:

Thanks very much for your explanation and reminder - it is indeed test07 that
fails.  I'm looking forward to testing your fix when it's ready.

Regards,
Eric