Re: [PATCH v2] generic: disable dmlogwrites tests on XFS

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 09:37:32AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> Yes, but the goal of this patch is not to completely fix the dmlogwrites
> infrastructure and set of tests. The goal is to disable a subset of
> tests that are known to produce spurious corruptions on XFS until that
> issue can be addressed, so it doesn't result in continued bug reports in
> the meantime. I don't run these tests routinely on other fs', so it's
> not really my place to decide that the tradeoff between this problem and
> the ability of the test to reproduce legitimate bugs justifies disabling
> the test on those configs.

So my problem is that XFS here is the messenger - this could screw up
every other file system just as much.  So if we just want to disable
the tests for now we should do it for all file systems, not just for
the one that found the problem with the test.



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