From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p4KHDEgW102243 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 12:13:15 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id F16B31B8EE0C for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id FRPFQfEGqHl8sruW for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 10:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:13:04 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Failure of xfstest 229 Message-ID: <20110520171304.GA20208@infradead.org> References: <1305852937.7661.369.camel@chandra-lucid.beaverton.ibm.com> <20110520025840.GP32466@dastard> <1305909303.7661.373.camel@chandra-lucid.beaverton.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1305909303.7661.373.camel@chandra-lucid.beaverton.ibm.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Chandra Seetharaman Cc: XFS Mailing List On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:35:03AM -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > Can it run successfully by fluke sometimes ? I did have a successful run > on the 20G filesystem yesterday once, but not able to reproduce it again It doesn't fail on thinly provisioned storage which zeroes out any blocks it gives to the OS. Similarly it might not fail if all blocks that it would normally leak are zeroed underneath for some reason, but it's rather unlikely that this happens by accident. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs