On 5/13/11 12:25 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote: > 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. I can ask Nathan if he can package the qa bits for debian. Or, you all could just use Fedora ;) -Eric -- 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
