linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 01/10] tests: don't use a sparse test file

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Date:   Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:41:20 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] tests: don't use a sparse test file

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:25:57PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> If the TEST_BITS file is sparse, then the "debugfs -R write"
> command may skip holes in the file when copying it into the
> test image (depending on whether SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA and/or
> FIEMAP are available in the copy_file() function).
> 
> This was causing test failures on MacOS in the f_dup_resize
> and d_loaddump tests because the TEST_BITS file was the
> compiled "debugfs" binary, which apparently has holes when
> built on MacOS, and the number of blocks allocated in the
> test image was reduced as a result.  This caused the expect
> output to differ in the summary line and resulted in failure.
> 
> Instead of using the debugfs binary for TEST_BITS, generate
> a temporary file using /dev/urandom, if available.  If not,
> fall back to the old behaviour or using debugfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>

Applied with the following fix up.

				- Ted

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ac5c2c1d9..df4021c90 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ tests/*.failed
 tests/*.log
 tests/*.tmp
 tests/*.slow
+tests/test_data.tmp
 tests/mke2fs.conf
 tests/test_script
 tests/test_one
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.in b/tests/Makefile.in
index 7b9df62a8..4a1975894 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.in
+++ b/tests/Makefile.in
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ testend: test_one ${TDIR}/image
 
 clean::
 	$(RM) -f *~ *.log *.new *.failed *.ok *.tmp *.slow
-	$(RM) -f test_one test_script mke2fs.conf
+	$(RM) -f test_one test_script mke2fs.conf test_data.tmp
 
 distclean:: clean
 	$(RM) -f Makefile
diff --git a/tests/test_config b/tests/test_config
index cf9c79c6b..595567fc5 100644
--- a/tests/test_config
+++ b/tests/test_config
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ if [ ! -s $TEST_BITS ]; then
 	# create a non-sparse test file if possible, since debugfs may be
 	# sparse and cause "debugfs write" (using copy_file()) to skip holes
 	# during testing if SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE or FS_IOC_FIEMAP are available
-	dd if=/dev/urandom of=$TEST_BITS bs=128k count=1 > /dev/null 2&>1 ||
+	dd if=/dev/urandom of=$TEST_BITS bs=128k count=1 > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
 		TEST_BITS="$DEFBUGFS_EXE"
 fi
 RESIZE2FS_EXE="../resize/resize2fs"