linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] xfstests-bld: exclude ext4 defrag tests from unsupported configurations

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Message-ID: <20150610192810.GB24181@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:28:10 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests-bld: exclude ext4 defrag tests from unsupported
 configurations

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:13:19PM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> Online defrag is not currently implemented for journaled data and
> bigalloc ext4 file systems.  The xfstests that exercise online defrag
> do not verify that the test file system supports that feature before
> executing, resulting in spurious test failures.  (In the case of
> ext4/307, the test reports success but actually fails because the
> e4compact test component is ignoring failures.)
> 
> For the time being, simply exclude these tests to eliminate the test
> failure noise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>

Thanks, applied.  BTW, I had since removed data_journal.exclude
because generic/068 should be passing with data journalling enabled.

		    	      	      	   - Ted
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