[PATCH v4] xfstests: add a new test case for ext4 indirect-based file

[Dave Chinner]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:34:24PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> From: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz at taobao.com>
> 
> After applied this commit (864688d3), xfstests #255 will not test a
> file system that cannot support fallocate(2), such as a indirect-based
> file in ext4.  So we need to add a new generic test case to test it.
> 
> The difference between #255 and this test case is only to use pwrite to
> allocate blocks.  Other filesystems should survive in this test case.
> In the mean time, a new argument '-u' is added into _test_generic_punch
> not to run unwritten tests.
> 
> Meanwhile this commit fixes a minor problem in #255 that testfile should
> use $seq.$$ as testfile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz at taobao.com>
> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
> Cc: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
> Cc: Rich Johnston <rjohnston at sgi.com>

This will need to be rebased on top of Eric's patch that removes the
need to pass -F to xfs_io for non-xfs filesystems....

> --- a/tests/generic/group
> +++ b/tests/generic/group
> @@ -114,3 +114,4 @@
>  309 auto quick
>  310 auto
>  311 auto metadata log
> +314 auto quick prealloc

Why would you add it to the prealloc group? The whole point of the
test is that it doesn't use prealloc, right?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com