linux-kernel - Re: [TEST for] fs: global sync to not clear error status of individual inodes

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Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:18:59 +0000
From:   Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
CC:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [TEST for] fs: global sync to not clear error status of
 individual inodes

Hi Luis,

On 02/15/18 07:59, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> curious if you ever got to adapt a test case for xfstests for your patch
> "fs: global sync to not clear error status of individual inodes", which
> got merged as of v4.4 as:
> 
> aa750fd71c242dba02ee2034e15fbd7d0cdb2461 mm/filemap.c: make global sync not clear error status of individual inodes
> 
> You said you'd work on it, so curious if you ever got to it.
> 
> [0] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7183351/

I had adapted the test for xfstests and posted at the time but it
didn't go further. I guess recent kernel changes in this area also
added related test cases to xfstests.

  xfstests: test data-writeback error detection with fsync
  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7194041/

-- 
Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation / NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.