The writeback error handling test requires that you put the journal on a separate device. This allows us to use dmerror to simulate data writeback failure, without affecting the journal. xfs already has infrastructure for this (a'la $SCRATCH_LOGDEV), so wire up the ext4 code so that it can do the same thing when _scratch_mkfs is called. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- common/rc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc index 743df427c047..391d36f373cd 100644 --- a/common/rc +++ b/common/rc @@ -676,6 +676,9 @@ _scratch_mkfs_ext4() local tmp=`mktemp` local mkfs_status + [ "$USE_EXTERNAL" = yes -a ! -z "$SCRATCH_LOGDEV" ] && \ + $mkfs_cmd -O journal_dev $SCRATCH_LOGDEV && \ + mkfs_cmd="$mkfs_cmd -J device=$SCRATCH_LOGDEV" _scratch_do_mkfs "$mkfs_cmd" "$mkfs_filter" $* 2>$tmp.mkfserr 1>$tmp.mkfsstd mkfs_status=$? -- 2.9.4