On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:40:08AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 02:39:43AM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:47:20AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Not sure if my shell is the problem here, but I need this explicit > > > redirection to ignore the error output from mkdir and xfs_io, otherwise > > > the test fails due to the error messages from these commands. > > > > That's weird, from bash manpage, "&>" should be equivalent to "> ... 2>&1" > > > > There're many other tests use "&>" as well, do you see such failures > > from other tests, such as generic/347? > > No. But 256 keeps on failing for me without this. Given that it's > just a slightly more verbose syntax is there any reason not to just > apply this patch for now? BTW, are you using Debian, or your default shell is not bash? If so, I guess you may hit this https://www.spinics.net/lists/fstests/msg00686.html Changing the default shell to bash for fsgqa user should do the work for you, I guess. Thanks, Eryu -- 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