linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] xfstests: don't assume that falloc

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Date:	Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:51:54 -0600
From:	Rich Johnston <rjohnston@....com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
CC:	<xfs@....sgi.com>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: don't assume that falloc_punch implies falloc
 in test 255

On 03/05/2013 11:59 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> As of Linux 3.9-rc1, ext4 will support the punch operation on file
> systems using indirect blocks, but it can not support the fallocate
> operation (since there is no way to mark a block as uninitialized
> using indirect block scheme).  This caused test 255 to fail, since it
> only used _require_xfS_io_falloc_punch assuming that all file systems
> which supported punch can also support fallocate.  Fix this.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> ---
>   255 | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/255 b/255
> index 0083963..ae1d8e0 100755
> --- a/255
> +++ b/255
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ _supported_fs generic
>   _supported_os Linux
>
>   _require_xfs_io_falloc_punch
> +_require_xfs_io_falloc
#rcj looks reasonable to me to add this requirement
>   _require_xfs_io_fiemap
>
>   testfile=$TEST_DIR/255.$$
>

Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@....com>
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