Re: Test 274 in xfstests

Eric Sandeen
2012-05-15T18:12:23Z

On 5/15/12 1:05 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> test 274 fails e.g. for ext3 because it does not support fallocate(). So
> I would think the best way to fix the is to add to the test
> _require_xfs_io_falloc()
> so that the test is run only for filesystems which do support fallocate.
> But with that is connected one slightly related question - why does the
> test use fallocate(1) binary instead of "xfs_io falloc" command which is
> more common in xfstests?
>
> Honza

Argh I'm behind. I had:

[PATCH V2] xfstests: several 274 fixups

on the list way too long ago.

Want to test that out? It has 1 review on the list, I'll merge it
soon - if you want to give it a quick test first, go for it :)

-Eric