Test case 223 constantly fails because the variable carrying mkfs options is not being reinitialized. Test calls function _scratch_mkfs_geom repeatedly in for loop without cleaning the MKFS_OPTIONS variable. Since _scratch_mkfs_geom only appends options to the variable, MKFS_OPTIONS looks like this in 5th iteration: MKFS_OPTIONS="-bsize=4096-b size=4096 -d su=8192,sw=4-b size=4096 -d su=16384,sw=4-b size=4096 -d su=32768,sw=4-b size=4096 -d su=65536,sw=4-b size=4096 -d su=131072,sw=4" It is also easy to see that _scratch_mkfs_geom does not append leading space when it appends the variable. Following patch fixes the issue for me and based on my testing does not break any other test case: diff -uprN xfstests-dev/223 xfstests-dev-new/223 --- xfstests-dev/223 2010-11-09 08:53:39.000000000 -0500 +++ xfstests-dev-new/223 2010-11-17 08:05:56.745068628 -0500 @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ for SUNIT_K in 8 16 32 64 128; do let SUNIT_BLOCKS=$SUNIT_BYTES/$BLOCKSIZE echo "=== mkfs with su $SUNIT_BLOCKS blocks x 4 ===" + export MKFS_OPTIONS="" _scratch_mkfs_geom $SUNIT_BYTES 4 $BLOCKSIZE >> $seq.full 2>&1 _scratch_mount diff -uprN xfstests-dev/common.rc xfstests-dev-new/common.rc --- xfstests-dev/common.rc 2010-11-09 08:53:39.000000000 -0500 +++ xfstests-dev-new/common.rc 2010-11-17 08:07:06.972132647 -0500 @@ -349,10 +349,10 @@ _scratch_mkfs_geom() case $FSTYP in xfs) - MKFS_OPTIONS+="-b size=$blocksize, -d su=$sunit_bytes,sw=$swidth_mult" + MKFS_OPTIONS+=" -b size=$blocksize, -d su=$sunit_bytes,sw= $swidth_mult" ;; ext4) - MKFS_OPTIONS+="-b $blocksize -E stride=$sunit_blocks,stripe_width= $swidth_blocks" + MKFS_OPTIONS+=" -b $blocksize -E stride=$sunit_blocks,stripe_width= $swidth_blocks" ;; *) _notrun "can't mkfs $FSTYP with geometry" Signed-off-by: Boris Ranto <branto@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs