xfstests 258: Test xfs fs creation with fs size close to 4 TB

[Eric Sandeen]

On 9/26/11 6:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This one actually fails for me in a 32-bit userspace VM:
> 
> --- 259.out	2011-09-26 09:14:39.000000000 +0000
> +++ 259.out.bad	2011-09-26 11:22:44.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1,7 +1,157 @@
>  QA output created by 259
>  Trying to make 4398046511103 B long xfs fs image
> +dd failed
> +can't get size of data subvolume
> +Usage: mkfs.xfs
> +/* blocksize */		[-b log=n|size=num]
> 
> ...
> 
> When removing the dd output redirection thus turn into a:
> 
> +dd: failed to truncate to 4398046509056 bytes in output file `/259.image': File too large
> 
> As it turns out testfile is assigned to early in the test, and we thus
> create the images on the root filesystem.

Oh hell.

Thanks for fixing :(

> ---
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Subject: [PATCH] xfstests: fix test 259
> 
> Move the assignment of testfile after the sourcing of the common.* files to
> make sure TEST_DIR is already defined - without this we end up creating
> the file on the root filesystem, which may not support large enough files.
> 
> Also add a sync after the mkfs.xfs invocation, as losetup -d might fail
> the loop device deletion with -EBUSY otherwise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> Index: xfstests-dev/259
> ===================================================================
> --- xfstests-dev.orig/259	2011-09-26 11:29:17.000000000 +0000
> +++ xfstests-dev/259	2011-09-26 11:32:54.000000000 +0000
> @@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ echo "QA output created by $seq"
>  
>  status=1	# failure is the default!
>  
> -testfile=$TEST_DIR/259.image
> -
>  _cleanup()
>  {
>      rm -f "$testfile"
> @@ -45,6 +43,8 @@ trap "_cleanup ; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3
>  _supported_fs xfs
>  _supported_os Linux
>  
> +testfile=$TEST_DIR/259.image
> +
>  # Test various sizes slightly less than 4 TB
>  # 4398046511103 = 2^42 - 1
>  # 4398046510592 = 2^42 - 512
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ do
>  	lofile=$(losetup -f)
>  	losetup $lofile "$testfile"
>  	"$MKFS_XFS_PROG" -b size=512 $lofile >/dev/null || echo "mkfs failed!"
> +	sync
>  	losetup -d $lofile
>  done
>