On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 在 2018年1月4日，下午2:48，Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> 写道： >> >> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> metadata journaling check needs base filesystem configureations >>> and ./check -overlay saves those configurations to OVL_BASE_*, >>> so restore/override the configuratons before/after the check. >>> >> >> 1. Presumably, you are making this change because you ran into a problem >> with some setup? Please you specify that motivation in commit message. > > Sorry for delaying long time, actually this is a follow-up patch of shutdown > support for overlay, based on our previous discussion and mainly for avoiding > Eryu’s concern as below. > > === > I think you're right, I was looking at other shutdown tests for too long > and thought this one needed the jounal check too, sorry about that! > > But as Amir suggested, other shutdown tests need overlay support in > _require_metadata_journaling, but I think that can be fixed in a > follow-up patch, as using ext2 or no-journal mode ext4 as the backing > filesystems of overlay is not a common setup, the possiblity of someone > hitting false positive is relative low. > === > >> 2. Can you please give a brief summary of the type of generic tests >> that are going >> to "notrun" because of this change without specifying base FSTYP. >> I suppose it will be good for those tests not to run, just want to get the idea, >> because I have a feeling that _require_metadata_journaling is used for >> various different reasons. > > Currently it does not check for overlay in _require_metadata_journaling, > so even if base fs without journal can successfully pass this check, right? > > With this change, if we do not specify base FSTYP then FSTYP and OVL_BASE_FSTYP > are all “overlay”, in this situation I think it’s better to stop test and give a > proper warning to tester because we could not decide what to do. > > >> 3. Please specify with which base fs you tested and preferably, run the >> test with the 3 major fs as base fs. Bonus points for running the test with >> multi section config file with several base fs ;-) > > I basically tested xfs,ext2,ext4(with journal/no-journal mode) but in one section, > I’ll test multi section config later if this change is useful. > > Okay, so IIUC, there is a commit that made a bunch of shutdown tests to work with -overlay run and this commit introduced a bug with the uncommon setup of overay over ext2/ext4-noload. That should be the gist of your commit message and the commit id and title should be part of that message. Thanks, Amir. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
