On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:54:20PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > If you use a hostname which is part of the output of > standard tools you end up with failures with fstests > due to differences in output against the golden output. > > The failures are false positives due to the hostname. > For instance if you hostname is 'xfs' _dump_filter_main() > will substitute the initiial 'xfs' with HOSTNAME as part > of your logs, and will fail the output will fail against > the golden output on say all xfsdump / xfsrestores tests. > > The hostname must be a unique string, not used as part > of the output from any tool used when capturing output. > > Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> IMHO, a better fix would be improving the regexp in _dump_filter_main to match hostname more precisely. I did the following update and it seemed to work fine, I tested with '-g dump' and all tests passed (some tests _notrun due to missing tape device). --- a/common/dump +++ b/common/dump @@ -826,7 +826,8 @@ _dump_filter_main() -e "s#$__XFSDUMP_PROG#xfsdump#" \ -e "s#$XFSRESTORE_PROG#xfsrestore#" \ -e "s#$XFSINVUTIL_PROG#xfsinvutil#" \ - -e "s/`hostname`/HOSTNAME/" \ + -e "s/`hostname`:/HOSTNAME:/" \ + -e "s/: `hostname`/: HOSTNAME/" \ -e "s#$SCRATCH_DEV#SCRATCH_DEV#" \ -e "s#$SCRATCH_RAWDEV#SCRATCH_DEV#" \ -e "s#$dumptape#TAPE_DEV#" \ It's based on the fact that there're basically two patterns that contain 'HOSTNAME': xfsrestore: hostname: HOSTNAME xfsdump: level 0 dump of HOSTNAME:SCRATCH_MNT Thanks, Eryu