Re: [PATCH] xfstests: add support for ext4dev FSTYP

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On 5/31/11 11:56 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 5/31/11 10:13 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>>> From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> blkid knows to identify the ext4dev FSTYP of a partition that was
>>> formatted with mkfs.ext4dev.
>>> quota tools and various util-linux utils are also aware of ext4dev,
>>> so ext4dev shares the same capabilities as ext4.
>>>
>>> While testing on Fedora 15, we encoutered a buggy fsck utility, which
>>> invokes fsck.ext4, even though it was called with -t ext4dev argument.
>>> In our setup fsck.ext4dev knows about new fs features that fsck.ext4
>>> doesn't know, so the generic_fs_check fails.
>>> Since we have no real use of the extra capabilities provided by fsck util,
>>> we decided to invoke fsck.$FSTYP directly to avoid this issue.
>>
>> Adding ext4dev to every case seems harmless enough.  TBH I thought I had
>> it there already but I guess not.
>>
>> I'm less certain of the change from fsck -t $FSTYP to fsck.$FSTYP
>>
>> What issue are you avoiding?  wouldn't fsck -t ext4dev invoke fsck.ext4dev anyway?
>>
>> It seems like it should be harmless, but I don't understand how it helps you.
>>
> 
> As I wrote in the patch description, the fsck utility in Fedora 15 invokes
> fsck.ext4 for some reason when calling fsck -t ext4dev.

Oh, right.

> this fails because fsck.ext4 doesn't know the snapshot feature.
> I didn't debug fsck utility for that. it seemed pointless.

Did you file a bug with Fedora?  I'd rather fix the root cause than work around it...
Feel free to cc: me on the bug.

-Eric

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