On 4/30/13 2:40 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:09:54AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> older xfs_io refused to write to /dev/null because it's
>> not a file on an xfs filesystem. So add -F.
>
> You could just do:
>
> export XFS_IO_PROG="$XFS_IO_PROG -F"
>
> and not have to change so much of the test. And with a comment it
> would make it obvious to a future ready why the -F flag is used ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
Well, it's not just this test; it's any non-xfs-specific test
which uses xfs_io for anything at all. We have -F's sprinkled
through many tests for that reason, even though -F is deprecated upstream.
There are 15 non-xfs-specific tests which use XFS_IO_PROG:
[sandeen@sandeen xfstests]$ grep -l XFS_IO_PROG tests/generic/* tests/shared/*
| wc -l
15
and in most cases -F is explicitly added:
[sandeen@sandeen xfstests]$ grep XFS_IO_PROG tests/generic/* tests/shared/* |
grep "\-F" | wc -l
42
but in this case it wasn't; ditto for 298.
So I guess it's a question of remembering to fix each individual test (and
every new
test) or somehow making it automatic. It'll get missed often, since this really
only comes up when testing a distro with an old xfsprogs.
-Eric
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