I recently tried running xfstests with an external log device, and found a number of failures caused by the fact that we use dmflakey and dmerror to take down a disk to simulate a power failure or a complete hard disk failure. But with an external log device, the tests don't correctly simulate these scenarios, so skip them. With these patches, testing with ext4 using an external log is passing almost all of the auto group tests, with the exception of ext4/028 (which appears to be a genuine ext4 fsmap bug not handling external log devices correctly). Theodore Ts'o (2): dmflakey: don't run dmflakey tests with an external log device generic/475: skip test when using an external log device common/dmflakey | 4 ++++ tests/generic/475 | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) -- 2.31.0
