On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/13/11 9:56 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:17:03PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone try to reproduce the error with xfstest 005 and the crash >>> with xfstest 232? >> >> Xfstest #5 broke because of a change in the VFS, which now allows up >> to 40 nested symlinks. So that's a matter of your xfstests being too >> old. >> >> The version of xfstests I've been using on my KVM box is too old to >> have test 232, so I haven't been able to test it. I've been trying to >> use a newer version of xfstests, but xfstests doesn't build on either >> Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS), Debian stable, or Debian unstable, due to the use >> of newer XFS ioctl's and xfsctl's that aren't defined in the system >> header files. The fact that it doesn't work on Ubuntu LTS and Stable >> is not that surprising, I suppose, but I was a bit disappointed that >> it doesn't work on Debian unstable. > > I missed that bug report :) If you can send me the details of the > failures we can probably add configure tests for any new ioctls > that are causing build failures. > >> Since I don't have a Fedora system handy --- which header file are >> things like "struct xfs_flock64" supposed to be defined these days? > > Hm, well, on my Fedora system, /usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h, from xfsprogs-devel. > > I don't think that has changed in a very long time... > > I also package an xfsprogs-qa-devel which has some additional pieces in > it to support xfstests. Debian could do the same ... "make install-qa" > in xfsprogs puts those bits into the root. > After xfstests failed to build on Ubuntu 10.10, I followed the advice omitted by the build script to run "make install-qa", to solve the problem. It took me a while to figure exactly where I should run the command, but in the end I pulled the xfsprogs tree, ran "make; make install; make install-qa" and from there on things were looking better. Amir. > -Eric > >> - Ted >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
