dmsetup arguments

[alexander.tsvetkov at oracle.com]

On 06/18/13 17:23, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 04:08:44PM +0400, alexander.tsvetkov at oracle.com wrote:
>> On 06/18/13 05:26, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:51:25PM +0400, alexander.tsvetkov at oracle.com wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> XFStests suite generic/311 test fails on command: "sbin/dmsetup load
>>>> flakey-test --table "0 150000001 flakey /dev/sdc2 0 0 180 1
>>>> drop_writes" with error: "device-mapper: reload ioctl on flakey-test
>>>> failed: Invalid argument", so as I understand the command format
>>>> provided to ioctl is incorrect here. Kernel logs has message:
>>>>
>>>> "Jun 13 16:47:15 tests kernel: device-mapper: table: 252:3: flakey:
>>>> dm-flakey: Invalid argument count
>>>> Jun 13 16:47:15 tests kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding
>>>> target to table"
>>> What kernel and version of dmsetup are you using? If it is too old
>>> to support the flakey target, then we need a new require rule check
>>> for the test to avoid old versions of dmsetup...
>> Kernel version is 2.6.39, version of device-mapper-libs is 1.02.77.
> So it's an old version of both the kernel and DM, so it's probably
> not been tested at all. Like I said - it probably needs a better
> check in _require_dm_flakey() to determine if the test should be run
> or not.
>
I agree about kernel version, but why DM version of 1.02.77 is also old? 
I though that I am using the latest version of DM referenced by these 
sources:

"Releases
The userspace code (dmsetup and libdevmapper) is now maintained 
alongside the LVM2 source available from http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/."

http://www.sourceware.org/dm/

and

"Source code

The source code is stored in git and can be accessed with git clone 
git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/lvm2.git
There is a web interface to git at http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/lvm2.git"

http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/

so finally I've got DM of version 1.02.77 within lvm2 package of version 
2.02.98 from http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/lvm2.git, it's of latest 
released version in the provided list.
Most recent lvm2 package from master branch of 2.02.99 version contains 
DM ofversion 1.02.78 which has no attribute "drop_writes" in sources as 
well.

Thanks,
Alexander Tsvetkov

> Patches are welcome...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
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