On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 03:56:17PM -0500, Eric Whitney wrote: > Test ext4/044 fails when run in the adv test case because it explicitly > attempts to mount a test file system created with the inline_data > feature as ext3. The inline_data feature and ext3 are incompatible, > and the mount attempt fails. > > This test did not fail in earlier xfstests-bld versions because the > features included in adv were different. In particular, the 64bit > feature was applied, and this had an unfortunate side effect. > Because the 64bit feature requires extents, and because the test > attempts to create an ext3 file system, the initial attempt actually > failed. This was hidden by behavior in the xfstest function > _scratch_do_mkfs, which then attempted to create the file system without > the supplied "extra" mkfs options (those supplied for the adv test case). > So, the test file system was not created with inline_data, the explicit > attempt to mount the test file system as ext3 succeeded, and the test > passed without testing anything particular to the adv test case. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted
