Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] generic: basic smoke for filesystems on zoned block devices

[Anand Jain <anajain.sg@gmail.com>]

On 13-Oct-25 10:06 PM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 10/13/25 3:55 PM, Anand Jain wrote:
>> Johannes,
>>
>> The test case is failing with XFS. For some reason, the mkfs error
>> wasn't captured in the output, so I had to modify the test slightly.
>> Errors and the diff is below.
>>
>> Thanks, Anand
>>
>> -------
>> SECTION       -- generic-config
>> RECREATING    -- xfs on /dev/sde
>> FSTYP         -- xfs (non-debug)
>> PLATFORM      -- Linux/x86_64 feddev 6.16.10-100.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP
>> PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct  2 18:19:14 UTC 2025
>> MKFS_OPTIONS  -- -f /dev/sda
>> MOUNT_OPTIONS -- /dev/sda /mnt/scratch
>>
>> generic/772       [not run] cannot mkfs zoned filesystem
>> Ran: generic/772
>> Not run: generic/772
>> Passed all 1 tests
> 
> Hi Anand,
> 
> Looking at the output it isn't failing but skipped on your XFS config.
> 
> 
> This is expected if XFS isn't build with support for the zoned realtime
> device. I've been discussing this with Christoph, because for XFS there
> is no feature flag in sysfs we can check if the kernel can actually
> support a zoned RT device (unlike f2fs or btrfs which do have this in
> sysfs).
> 
> Christoph's idea was to do exactly this, if no zoned RT support is
> compiled in the kernel. Hence the _try_mkfs_dev instead of a plain
> _mkfs_dev call.
> 
> So I /think/ you just validated that the skip if !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED
> && !CONFIG_XFS_RT check works.
> 

Ah, thanks for clarifying. Any idea if the redirect to seqres.full can 
be fixed? It was missing the mkfs errors.

Best, Anand


> Thanks,
> 
> Johannes
>