Re: [PATCH] xfstests: test 194, test tricky mapping/conversion around holes

Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-29T11:37:38Z

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:17:38PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Related to
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=801
>
> Latest patch posted on that bug makes this testcase pass...
>
> (are we at 194 now?)
>
> first 2 tests are simple buffred writ tests making sure stale
> data isn't exposed, and hole-blocks aren't mapped.
>
> 2nd 2 tests are more related to the above bug, tricky testcase
> uncovered by fsx on ppc64 which actually re-maps a block
> which should be a hole, bringing stale data back into existence.

The testcase requires awk --asign, which my debian lenny testbox
(mawk 1.3.3-11.1) doesn't have. Any chance you could rework it
to work with the posix awk features?