Re: xfstest failures

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:24:28AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 11/7/13, 2:17 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> that's right, it's a known bug w/ a testcase but no fix yet.
> >>
> >> I looked a bit, but ugh, xfsdump.
> > 
> > Maybe it's time you come up with an xfail mechanism at least?
> 
> What's the proposal there, a "fail" group for things known to still
> fail everywhere?
> 
> so i.e. ./check -x fail ?  I can easily send a patch for that if
> that's what folks want.

A mechnism to annotate a test as xfail, so that check would output them
at the end ala:

Expected failures:  common/263
Unexpected successes: reiser4/001