[PATCH] xfstests: exit out if _scratch_mount fails

Josef Bacik jbacik at fusionio.com
Fri Jul 26 11:25:58 CDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:15:13AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 7/26/13 11:12 AM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > Hey Josef,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:07:27PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> >> I test some of the different mkfs options for btrfs, one set doesn't work
> >> properly with small file systems, so the fs won't mount.  This is fine from a
> >> btrfs point of view, but tests that fail to mount the scratch fs will run
> >> anyway, so if it's a "fill the fs" sort of test this will wreak havoc.  To fix
> >> this just error out of _scratch_mount fails.  Thanks,
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik at fusionio.com>
> > 
> > I noticed that this change causes dmapi tests to try to be run on systems that
> > don't have dmapi supported, and they fail.  Have you seen this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 	Ben
> 
> I haven't tested either way, but does:
> 
>      _mount -t $FSTYP `_scratch_mount_options $*` || _fail "Scratch mount failed"
> 
> work any better?

Well thats cleaner but I'm not sure why this patch is making that happen.  I
don't have dmapi on my main box (at least afaik) and I've not had that sort of
issue running with this patch.  Thanks,

Josef



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