Re: [PATCH] generic/204: do not call _scratch_mkfs_sized in a pipe

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:25:51AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 04:11:10PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> > _scratch_mkfs_sized will create a filesystem of the given size, and
> > call _notrun and exit if current $FSTYP doesn't support sized mkfs.
> > But when it's called in a pipe, the exit in _notrun only exits from
> > the subshell created by the pipe not the test itself, and test
> > continues to run unnecessarily.
> > 
> > Fix it by not calling _scratch_mkfs_sized in a pipe, but dumping the
> > output to a tmp file, which will be fed to _filter_mkfs later.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > This is uncovered by Darrick's patch "generic/204: use available blocks
> > to determine the number of files to create", with this patch applied
> > test will 'hang' when testing on a large NFS export, because the number
> > of files to be created was based on the size of available space.
> > 
> > Note that I've dropped that patch because it also caused failure in 512B
> > block size XFS test.
> > 
> >  tests/generic/204 | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/generic/204 b/tests/generic/204
> > index 4c203a213f5b..ebc9c0fa001b 100755
> > --- a/tests/generic/204
> > +++ b/tests/generic/204
> > @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ _scratch_mkfs 2> /dev/null | _filter_mkfs 2> $tmp.mkfs > /dev/null
> >  [ $FSTYP = "xfs" ] && MKFS_OPTIONS="$MKFS_OPTIONS -l size=16m -i maxpct=50"
> >  
> >  SIZE=`expr 115 \* 1024 \* 1024`
> > -_scratch_mkfs_sized $SIZE $dbsize 2> /dev/null \
> > -		| _filter_mkfs 2> $tmp.mkfs > /dev/null
> > +_scratch_mkfs_sized $SIZE $dbsize 2> /dev/null > $tmp.mkfs.raw
> > +cat $tmp.mkfs.raw | _filter_mkfs 2> $tmp.mkfs > /dev/null
> 
> Looks ok,
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> 
> Though xfs/015 seems to employ this same strategy (piped mkfs_sized) so
> that test needs fixing too, right?

I did do a grep for the piped mkfs_sized pattern through all the tests
but apparently missed xfs/015.. Will fix that too in v2.

Thanks,
Eryu

> 
> --D
> 
> >  _scratch_mount
> >  
> >  # Source $tmp.mkfs to get geometry
> > -- 
> > 2.13.6
> > 
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