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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] xfstests: automatically add -F to xfs_io on non-xfs
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 12:41:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130508024124.GI24635@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5189B9DA.7010807@sandeen.net>

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:35:06PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The -F flag to xfs_io originally enabled it to operate on non-xfs
> filesystems.  This restriction was removed upstream in favor of
> gracefully failing on the handful of operations that actually
> required xfs, and the option was deprecated.
> 
> However, xfstests is still used on distros with older xfsprogs, and
> so "xfs_io -F" was necessary throughout xfstests.
> 
> Simplify this by appending -F to XFS_IO_PROG when it's needed -
> i.e. if we're using old xfsprogs on a non-xfs filesystem.
> 
> This will eliminate errors when new tests leave out the -F, and
> if and when -F is finally removed, there will be one central
> location in xfstests to update.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> V2: test for necessity of -F in all cases, and convert
> a bunch more direct callers of xfs_io to $XFS_IO_PROG

Yup, that fixes the one concern I had with the first patch.
Loks good.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-08  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-04 13:23 [PATCH] xfstests: automatically add -F to xfs_io on non-xfs Eric Sandeen
2013-05-06  0:04 ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-08  2:35 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2013-05-08  2:41   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-05-14 13:42   ` Rich Johnston

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