Re: [PATCH 1/2] fstests: make generic/500 xfs+ext4 only

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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 08:24:25AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:00:31AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > I recently fixed some bugs in btrfs's enospc handling that made it start
> > failing generic/500.
> > 
> > The point of this test is to make the thin provisioned device run out of
> > space, which results in an EIO being seen on a device from the file
> > systems perspective.  This is fine for xfs and ext4 who's metadata is
> > being overwritten and already allocated on the thin provisioned device.
> > They get an EIO on data writes, fstrim to free up the space, and keep it
> > going.
> > 
> > Btrfs however has dynamic metadata, so the rm -rf could result in
> > metadata IO being done on the file system.  Since the thin provisioned
> > device is out of space this gives us an EIO, and we flip read only.  We
> > didn't remove the file, so the fstrim doesn't recover space anyway, so
> > we can't even fstrim and remount.
> > 
> > Make this test for ext4/xfs only, it just simply won't work right for
> > btrfs in it's current form.
> 
> How about:
> 
> test $FSTYP = "btrfs" && _notrun "btrfs doesn't work that way lol"
> 
> since afaik btrfs is the only fs that shouldn't run this test?
> Also, I think Ted was trying to kill off tests/shared/...
> 

That explains why it seemed emptier than normal.  Yeah that sounds like a fine
solution to me, I'll send a updated patch shortly.  Thanks,

Josef



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