linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] tests: Fixup for new r_move

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Message-ID: <87mv1ie2v3.fsf@fastmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 13 Jan 2018 06:37:04 +0100
From:   Marius Bakke <mbakke@...tmail.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] tests: Fixup for new r_move_itable tests.

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

> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 08:55:40AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Commits 257f009d1034737096f197dc875931207bcdfc75 and
>> 2b50c18a8a12781c26b71873f4368fe61711d9f9 missed one pass in expected
>> output.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke@...tmail.com>
>
> Hi, what architecture did you discover this on?  I don't need this
> change on x86, but I was seeing some mysterious regression test
> failures on a big-endian system which seemed to look like this.  I
> didn't have time to follow up on it then, but I suspect that this may
> be what you are running into.

Thanks for the reply.  I get this on x86, but upon further
investigation, it only happens in the Guix build container.

Running "make check" interactively in a terminal works.  Do you have any
idea what may cause these two tests to extend the inode table when run
in the isolated build chroot?

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