The e4defrag program requires the use of fallocate, which in turn means that the file system must have extents. Enforce this requirement so we don't get test failure noise when testing ext4's ext3 compatibility. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- common/defrag | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/common/defrag b/common/defrag index 942593e..6fbf830 100644 --- a/common/defrag +++ b/common/defrag @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ _require_defrag() DEFRAG_PROG="$XFS_FSR_PROG" ;; ext4|ext4dev) - DEFRAG_PROG="$E4DEFRAG_PROG" + DEFRAG_PROG="$E4DEFRAG_PROG" + dumpe2fs -h $SCRATCH_DEV 2> /dev/null | grep -wq extent || \ + _notrun "file system does not have extents, needed for defrag" ;; btrfs) DEFRAG_PROG="$BTRFS_UTIL_PROG filesystem defragment" -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html