generic/258 questions (mount issue)...

Michael L. Semon
2013-05-22T00:44:03Z

Hi! When using xfstests generic/258 with along with $TEST_RTDEV
$TEST_LOGDEV, it tends to scream bloody murder about corrupted
partitions and such. In fact, the commands in the test seem to do the
right thing when executed by hand. So once again, I grasped for straws
and came up with this:

--- xfstests/tests/generic/258.orig 2013-05-21 20:19:38.430754829 -0400
+++ xfstests/tests/generic/258 2013-05-21 20:10:11.509021368 -0400
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
# unmount, remount, and check the timestamp
echo "Remounting to flush cache"
umount $TEST_DEV
-mount $TEST_DEV $TEST_DIR
+_test_mount

# Should yield -315593940 (prior to epoch)
echo "Testing for negative seconds since epoch"

My questions are these:

1) Was there a better way to do this?

2) Not knowing the policy on umounting $TEST_DEV, could this have been a
test for $SCRATCH_DEV?

This was tested only on XFS with rtdev and logdev partitions enabled.

Thanks!

Michael