xfsprogs-3.1.11 pre-release please test!

[Mark Tinguely]

On 05/01/13 16:01, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 5/1/13 3:35 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> On 05/01/13 15:12, Rich Johnston wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> Here are the changes for this release:
>>>
>>> xfsprogs-3.1.11 (30 April 2013)
>>>
>>> - Support for relative paths in xfs_quota thanks to Satoru Takeuchi.
>>> - mkfs.xfs will always go into multidisk mode when filesystem
>>> geometry is specified on the command line.
>>> - Document all commands in xfs_io.
>>> - Remove setfl command from xfs_io.
>>> - xfs_metadump will obfuscate symlinks by path component.
>>> - mkfs.xfs no longer accepts geometry settings smaller than the
>>> physical sector size.
>>> - xfs_logprint now supports multiply-logged inode fields and
>>> handles continued inode transactions correctly.
>>> - kill XLOG_SET
>>> - Update release scripts to use git archive to address a
>>> missing source file reported by Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz
>>> - Fix a build error with -Werror=format-security, reported
>>> by Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz
>>> - mkfs.xfs no longer attempts to discard when -N option is used.
>>> - Update 'make deb' to use tarball
>>> - Sync up with log reservation changes in the kernel.
>>> - Fix possible unallocated memory access in fiemap.
>>> - Guard against string overflow in path_to_fspath.
>>> - Fix setup_cursor array allocation.
>>> - Fix free of unintialized pointer in xfs_acl_valid error path.
>>> - Guard against path string overflows.
>>> - Check strdup results properly in initallfs().
>>> - Fix attribute no_change_count logic.
>>> - Remove extraneous close() in fsrallfs().
>>> - xfs_repair now skips the freelist scan of a corrupt agf
>>> when in no-modify mode.
>>> - xfs_db now skips freelist scans of corrupt agfs.
>>> - Remove unconditional ASSERT(0) in xfs_repair.
>>> - Reduce bb_numrecs in bno/cnt btrees when log consumes all agf space.
>>> - Add depraction message for xfs_check.
>>> - xfs_quota allow user or group names beginning with digits reported by
>>> James Carter.
>>> - Fix manpages and usage() spelling, errors and omissions.
>>>
>>> I have placed a pre-release tarball here:
>>>
>>> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/pre-release/xfsprogs-pre-3.1.11-3.tar.gz
>>>
>>>
>>> Please take a look and report any issues before next Wednesday (08 May
>>> 2013). If there are other patches which you feel are essential, now is
>>> the time to say so.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> --Rich
>>
>> The new lines (below) in xfs_check.sh breaks older xfstests:
>>
>>    xfs_check is deprecated and scheduled for removal in June 2014.
>>    Please use xfs_repair -n<dev>  instead.
>
> Hum, I thought xfstests stopped calling xfs_check.sh and implemented
> its own xfs_check internally:
>
> commit 187bccd310dc253feaebd69df4ccdda21eee12d0
> Author: Chandra Seetharaman<sekharan at us.ibm.com>
> Date:   Thu Apr 18 17:44:02 2013 +0000
>
>      xfstests: Remove dependence of xfs_check script
>
>      Replace the usage of the script xfs_check and add the relevant code to
>      xfstests.
>
> ...
> -        [ "$XFS_CHECK_PROG" = "" ]&&  _fatal "xfs_check not found"
> ... etc ...
>
> where is check getting called directly?
>
> (Or: is your xfstests up to date?)
>
> -Eric

I disclosed it as an older xfstests.

It is conceivable that people will install the latest xfsprogs and not 
upgrade xfstests. I can hear it now, "It used to just work..." :)

--Mark.