From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id l6G745bm030567 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:04:07 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:04:00 +1000 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: xfs_fsr and null byte areas in files (fwd) Message-ID: <20070716070400.GU31489@sgi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Justin Piszcz Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com [Justin, thanks for the forward] > Subject: Re: xfs_fsr and null byte areas in files > Date: Sonntag 15 Juli 2007 > From: Martin Steigerwald > To: xfs@oss.sgi.com > > > Okay, trying once again. This time just with xfs@oss.sgi.com (no CC, no > nothing) as according to my test mail that seems to work best. > > Well maybe my build problem is already fixed. I will try on another day. Your domain is on various RBLs so spamassassin scores are causing your mail to get classified as spam and are being dropped. > Am Dienstag 10 Juli 2007 schrieb David Chinner: > >On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:13:48PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > >>1) Is there an XFS qa test available for xfs_fsr? If so I could use > >>that one. Are there some hints on how to get started on XFS qa? > > > >Yes, test 042. Download it from CVS, build it (installing all the > >bits it asks for ;), edit common.config to add your test and scratch > > Hi, > > Do I need both partitions for test 42? On the notebook I have only one > free partition and since it is a primary partition and all primary > partitions are used up, I cannot split it. Split the single partition with LVM. i.e. create a physvol using that partition and then create 2 logical volumes within it and use those. > I can try with an external USB harddrive and hope that this test setup is > similar enough to the situation that yielded my xfs_fsr problems. > > >partitions (both volatile) and the 'check -l 042' to run test 042. > > In order to test xfs_fsr on my laptop I tried compiling XFS qa, but I get > a compiler error in dmapi. I do not know what dmapi is, well I read > something about "Data Management API runtime environment" on google and > thought I may not need it to run test 42. But I do not find any option > in "./configure" to disable buildin it. > > I am using: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > shambala:~#1> apt-show-versions | grep xfs > xfsprogs/sid uptodate 2.9.0-1 > xfslibs-dev/sid uptodate 2.9.0-1 > xfsdump/sid uptodate 2.2.45-1 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- $ sudo apt-get install libdm0 libdm0-dev You probably also want libacl1, libacl1-dev, libattr, libattr1-dev libblkid1, libuuid1 and uuid-dev..... > I used > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > export CVSROOT=':pserver:cvs@oss.sgi.com:/cvs' > cvs checkout xfs-cmds > --------------------------------------------------------------------- or you could build them all from xfs-cmds/acl .../attr .../dmapi, etc. > to get xfsqa, then changed to the "xfs-cmds/xfs-tests" directory and > typed "make". It's the prereqs that you are missing.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group