xfstests #62 broken on ext4

Stefan Behrens sbehrens at giantdisaster.de
Sat Aug 13 10:57:49 CDT 2011


On 13.08.2011 16:38, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Xfstests #62 was recently enabled by commit b2b36d0a4.
>
> However, this test is failing for ext4 because ext4 doesn't support
> extended attributes on anything other than regular files and
> directories.  This is behavior is documented in the attr(5) man page:

> (3) Modify test #62 so that it can support both the XFS and Linux
> generic behavior.

> (5) Change XFS to match the generic behavior, and then change test #62.

I would volunteer for implementing the required changes for option #3 
and start next week except people favour option #5.




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