On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:53:58 -0400, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 04:48:16AM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > > During stress testing we want to cover as much code paths as possible > > fsstress is very good for this purpose. But it has expandable nature > > (disk usage almost continually grow). So once it goes in no ENOSPC > > condition it will be where till the end. But by running 'dd' writers > > in parallel we can regularly trigger ENOSPC but only for a limited > > periods of time because each time it opens the same file with O_TRUNC. > > This fails for me on XFS because the fsstress process has already > finished by the time you try to kill it: > > --- 266.out 2011-11-02 19:46:27.000000000 +0000 > +++ 266.out.bad 2011-11-02 19:48:33.000000000 +0000 > @@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ > Run fsstress > > Run dd writers in parallel > +./266: line 60: kill: (3403) - No such process Strange... this means that parent process died unexpectedly. Works fine fore me. In my case this happen once due to unknown options(new opt " -fsetattr=1" passed to fsstress explicitly) because i've forget to rebuilt fsstress via make. Can you please explicitly rebuild, and check one more time to be 100% sure. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevecalll" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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