linux-ext4 - Re: Rare xfsqa test failure

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Message-ID: <4A8C2D8D.8080402@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:51:25 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rare xfsqa test failure

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:28:04AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> If so, that calls ltp's fsstress, which does not call fallocate nor
>> posix_fallocate.  It only does preallocation on xfs via the old
>> xfs-specific ioctl (though I suppose we should add it...)
> 
> Which in modern kernels is implemented in common code and gets routed to
> ->falllocate.

Oh right....

I was thinking it didn't try any xfs ioctls on non-xfs filesystems but I
guess that's not the case.

-Eric
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