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

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Message-ID: <20150611200051.GA505@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:00:51 -0400
From:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Eric Whitney <enwlinux@...il.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests-bld: exclude ext4 defrag tests from unsupported
 configurations

I haven't tried to run generic/068 in quite a while, but do see it's passing
now.  I'll close the related bugzillas.  Do you know which patch fixed this?

Thanks,
Eric


* Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>:
> 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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