linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix check for zero range support in ext4/001

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Message-ID: <20140419214203.GB11494@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:42:03 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	xfs@....sgi.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix check for zero range support in ext4/001

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 03:08:15PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Ext4/001 fails when run on a file system that does not support byte range
> zeroing.  For example, an EOPNOTSUPP failure occurs when the test is run
> on a pre-3.15 extent-mapped file system.  The code in the test intended
> to prevent this contains an apparent typo that results in a check for
> fallocate() rather than zero range support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>

LGTM

Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
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