[PATCH 2/3 v2] XFS TESTS: Fix 252 Failure: Update 252 Golden Output

Allison Henderson achender at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 28 00:26:35 CDT 2011


On 06/27/2011 10:09 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:27:26PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote:
>> New filtered golden output for test 252
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson<achender at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> :100644 100644 930c924... fcfd121... M	252.out
>>   252.out |  272 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>>   1 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/252.out b/252.out
>> index 930c924..fcfd121 100644
>> --- a/252.out
>> +++ b/252.out
>> @@ -1,239 +1,307 @@
>>   QA output created by 252
>>   	1. into a hole
>> +daa100df6e6711906b61c9ab5aa16032
>>   	2. into allocated space
>> -0: [0..7]: data
>> +0: [0..7]: extent
>>   1: [8..23]: hole
>> -2: [24..39]: data
>> +2: [24..39]: extent
>> +cc58a7417c2d7763adc45b6fcd3fa024
>
> I don't really like the way this weakens the test for XFS. With this
> change, the test no longer is checking that unwritten extent
> behaviour is correct.
>
> Rather than weakening the test, perhaps it would be better to
> execute 252 for XFS only (with the md5sums added), and then
> duplicate it to a new test for all filesystems to run with the
> weaker result checking that using the new filter function gives us.
> With the amount of common code the two tests share, it should be
> trivial to do this....
>

Alrighty, that sounds pretty straight forward, as long as every one is 
in agreement.  I think that would help retain the tests effectiveness. 
Eric, Josef, what are your thoughts?

Allison Henderson

> Cheers,
>
> Dave.




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