Re: [PATCH] xfs/189: noattr2 invalid for CRC enabled filesystems

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:47:54AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:46:40PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Version 5 filesystems always have attr2 format enabled, and it
> > cannot be turned off via the noattr2 mount option. As such, attempts
> > to mount with noattr2 will be rejected and this causes cascading
> > failures within the test.
> > 
> > Hence detect if we've created a CRC enabled filesystem, and if this
> > is the case _notrun the test.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/xfs/189 | 11 ++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/xfs/189 b/tests/xfs/189
> > index 27bfb63..addf7ce 100755
> > --- a/tests/xfs/189
> > +++ b/tests/xfs/189
> > @@ -241,7 +241,16 @@ _require_scratch
> >  unset SCRATCH_RTDEV
> >  unset SCRATCH_LOGDEV
> >  
> > -_scratch_mkfs_xfs | _filter_mkfs 2>/dev/null
> > +_scratch_mkfs_xfs | _filter_mkfs 2> $tmp.mkfs
> > +
> > +# check to see if we've made a CRC enabled filesystem. If so,
> > +# we can't run the test because CRc enabled filesystems don't support
> > +# noattr2 mount options and this will cause cascading failures that are
> > +# impossible to filter.
> > +. $tmp.mkfs
> > +if [ $crc -eq 1 ]; then
> > +	_notrun "Filesystem CRCs enabled, noattr2 is not supported."
> > +fi
> 
> I really don't like opencoding this.  Shouldn't we instead simplfy
> pass a nocrc argument to _scratch_mkfs_xfs?

No, that simply breaks old mkfs binaries.

> Alternatively this magic should move into a helper.

I'll roll it into a _requires_noattr2 helper.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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