Re: [xfstests-bld PATCH] test-appliance: support f2fs-tools v1.9 and later

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On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 03:21:41PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> Pass the -f option to mkfs.f2fs when it appears to support it.  This is
> required by f2fs-tools v1.9 and later in order to format the filesystem
> even when an existing filesystem is detected.  But earlier versions did
> not accept this option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied for now, but ugh.  Grepping strings out of binaries is not
something I really like to depend upon.  Can we convince the f2fs
folks to provide a "/sbin/mkfs.f2fs -V" which prints a version string,
or some such?

						- Ted
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