On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ;) As a side note, I started using Ubuntu because their Live CD can build kernel modules (with no need to install any packages). I found it very convenient for testing my module with various kernels. Fedora Live CD wasn't as useful. > > -Eric > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
