This one actually fails for me in a 32-bit userspace VM: --- 259.out 2011-09-26 09:14:39.000000000 +0000 +++ 259.out.bad 2011-09-26 11:22:44.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,7 +1,157 @@ QA output created by 259 Trying to make 4398046511103 B long xfs fs image +dd failed +can't get size of data subvolume +Usage: mkfs.xfs +/* blocksize */ [-b log=n|size=num] ... When removing the dd output redirection thus turn into a: +dd: failed to truncate to 4398046509056 bytes in output file `/259.image': File too large As it turns out testfile is assigned to early in the test, and we thus create the images on the root filesystem. --- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] xfstests: fix test 259 Move the assignment of testfile after the sourcing of the common.* files to make sure TEST_DIR is already defined - without this we end up creating the file on the root filesystem, which may not support large enough files. Also add a sync after the mkfs.xfs invocation, as losetup -d might fail the loop device deletion with -EBUSY otherwise. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: xfstests-dev/259 =================================================================== --- xfstests-dev.orig/259 2011-09-26 11:29:17.000000000 +0000 +++ xfstests-dev/259 2011-09-26 11:32:54.000000000 +0000 @@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ echo "QA output created by $seq" status=1 # failure is the default! -testfile=$TEST_DIR/259.image - _cleanup() { rm -f "$testfile" @@ -45,6 +43,8 @@ trap "_cleanup ; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 _supported_fs xfs _supported_os Linux +testfile=$TEST_DIR/259.image + # Test various sizes slightly less than 4 TB # 4398046511103 = 2^42 - 1 # 4398046510592 = 2^42 - 512 @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ do lofile=$(losetup -f) losetup $lofile "$testfile" "$MKFS_XFS_PROG" -b size=512 $lofile >/dev/null || echo "mkfs failed!" + sync losetup -d $lofile done _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs