From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amir Goldstein Subject: Re: Regression with ext4 in kernel 2.6.39-rc7? (Was: testing ext4 master branch) Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:37:14 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20110513145608.GA21165@thunk.org> <4DCD4D5E.6050307@redhat.com> <4DCD6A2D.30504@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Theodore Tso , Ext4 Developers List , Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:50127 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756503Ab1EMRhQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 13:37:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4DCD6A2D.30504@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Eric Sandeen wrot= e: > On 5/13/11 12:25 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Eric Sandeen w= rote: >>> On 5/13/11 9:56 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: >>>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:17:03PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone try to reproduce the error with xfstest 005 and the cr= ash >>>>> with xfstest 232? >>>> >>>> Xfstest #5 broke because of a change in the VFS, which now allows = up >>>> to 40 nested symlinks. =A0So that's a matter of your xfstests bein= g too >>>> old. >>>> >>>> The version of xfstests I've been using on my KVM box is too old t= o >>>> have test 232, so I haven't been able to test it. =A0I've been try= ing to >>>> use a newer version of xfstests, but xfstests doesn't build on eit= her >>>> Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS), Debian stable, or Debian unstable, due to the = use >>>> of newer XFS ioctl's and xfsctl's that aren't defined in the syste= m >>>> header files. =A0The fact that it doesn't work on Ubuntu LTS and S= table >>>> is not that surprising, I suppose, but I was a bit disappointed th= at >>>> it doesn't work on Debian unstable. >>> >>> I missed that bug report :) =A0If you can send me the details of th= e >>> failures we can probably add configure tests for any new ioctls >>> that are causing build failures. >>> >>>> Since I don't have a Fedora system handy --- which header file are >>>> things like "struct xfs_flock64" supposed to be defined these days= ? >>> >>> Hm, well, on my Fedora system, /usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h, from xfsp= rogs-devel. >>> >>> I don't think that has changed in a very long time... >>> >>> I also package an xfsprogs-qa-devel which has some additional piece= s in >>> it to support xfstests. =A0Debian could do the same ... "make insta= ll-qa" >>> in xfsprogs puts those bits into the root. >>> >> >> After xfstests failed to build on Ubuntu 10.10, =A0I followed the ad= vice omitted >> by the build script to run "make install-qa", to solve the problem. >> It took me a while to figure exactly where I should run the command, >> but in the end I pulled the xfsprogs tree, ran "make; make install; >> make install-qa" >> and from there on things were looking better. > > I can ask Nathan if he can package the qa bits for debian. > > Or, you all could just use Fedora ;) As a side note, I started using Ubuntu because their Live CD can build kernel modules (with no need to install any packages). I found it very convenient for testing my module with various kernels. =46edora Live CD wasn't as useful. > > -Eric > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html