On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:45:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > In some configurations (e.g. 1 KB block size), ext4 can decide it is > better to zero out several blocks rather than splitting unwritten > extent. This changes results SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA returns and thus the > test fails. Fix the problem by disabling the feature for this test. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > --- > tests/generic/285 | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/tests/generic/285 b/tests/generic/285 > index b700a15..8078b1c 100755 > --- a/tests/generic/285 > +++ b/tests/generic/285 > @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ BASE_TEST_FILE=$TEST_DIR/seek_sanity_testfile > > [ -x $here/src/seek_sanity_test ] || _notrun "seek_sanitfy_tester not built" > > +# Disable extent zeroing for ext4 as that change where holes are created > +if [ "$FSTYP" = "ext4" ]; then > + DEV=`basename $TEST_DEV` > + echo 0 >/sys/fs/ext4/$DEV/extent_max_zeroout_kb > +fi would that be better going into _require_seek_data_hole so that 286 also picks up this behaviour for ext4? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs