"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:01:46AM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: >> > I tried out this test, and it's apparently failing for me using >> > e2fsprogs 1.45.2; it looks like it's a whitespace issue? >> >> Hi Ted, >> >> Yes, definitely just whitespace. But i don't understand why you are >> getting this behavior. I tried both with the master branch of e2fsprogs >> and the tagged commit of v1.45.2 and on both occasions the test succeed >> in my system. For sure I can use filter_spaces but I'm puzzled why I >> can't reproduce this. > > That's wierd. The kvm-xfstests appliance VM that's uploaded to > > https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/kvm-xfstests/ > > shows the problem. With your patch applied to the xfstests-dev > directory after checking out xfstests-bld (see [1] for more > information if you haven't used kvm-xfstests before), it's reproducible via: > > kvm-xfstests -I ../out_dir/root_fs.img.amd64 --update-xfstests-tar -c 4k shared/012 > > [1] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md Hi, Thanks for the tip. With my setup, I still can't reproduce it, but I was able to trigger it with xfstests-bld. I'll send a follow up patch that makes the result deterministic, making it work for every scenario. Later, I'll take a look to see what is missing on my setup to make it trigger. -- Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
