Re: fix kernels without v5 support

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On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 04:59:39PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:55:54PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> > > this series ensures tests pass on kernels without v5 support.  As a side
> > > effect it also removes support for historic kernels and xfsprogs without
> > > any v5 support, and without mkfs input validation.
> > 
> > Thanks for doing this! I'm wondering if fstests should do this "removing"
> > earlier than xfs? Hope to hear more opinions from xfs list and other fstests
> > users (especially from some LTS distro) :)
> 
> What is being removed is support for kernels and xfsprogs that do not
> support v5 file systems at all, not testing on v4 file system for the
> test device and the large majority of tests using the scratch device
> without specifying an explicit version.

Sure, I think most of systems testing doesn't need this, except some old
LTS distros.

> 
> The exception from the above are two sub-cases for v4 that are removed in
> the this series - if we really care about them I could move them into
> separate tests, but I doubt it's worth it.

Let me check and test this patchset more, before acking it. And give some
time to get more review. Thanks for this patchset!

Thanks,
Zorro

> 





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