Re: [PATCH] fstests: common: Keep $seqres.dmesg in $RESULT_DIR

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 02:59:38PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> Currently fstests will remove $seqres.dmesg if nothing wrong happened.
> It saves some space, but sometimes it may not provide good enough
> history for developers to check.
> E.g. some unexpected dmesg from fs, but not serious enough to be caught
> by current filter.
> 
> So instead of deleting the ordinary $seqres.dmesg, just keep them, so
> we can archive them for later review.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>

This looks fine to me, but it causes more disk space consumption and may
eat all rootfs space quickly and unexpectedly.

I suggest we add an option to control the behavior, and default behavior
is to delete the dmesg file.

Thanks,
Eryu

> ---
>  common/rc | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> index b988e912..59a339a6 100644
> --- a/common/rc
> +++ b/common/rc
> @@ -3625,10 +3625,8 @@ _check_dmesg()
>  	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>  		_dump_err "_check_dmesg: something found in dmesg (see $seqres.dmesg)"
>  		return 1
> -	else
> -		rm -f $seqres.dmesg
> -		return 0
>  	fi
> +	return 0
>  }
>  
>  # capture the kmemleak report
> -- 
> 2.23.0
> 



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