On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 06:07:12PM +0100, David Sterba wrote: > The initial value of FSTYP is unconditionally set to 'xfs' and the > filesystem type is taken from the TEST_DEV. This could lead to confusion > if the device hasn't been formatted yet, eg. an empty image in VM, or > a different test setup took place before. > > Now one can specify the desired FSTYP in advance and be safe. If unset, > the fallback to TEST_DEV type continues to work. > > Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> > --- > README | 3 +++ > check | 7 ++++--- > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/README b/README > index a49ca7c3ff15..62974ef87b89 100644 > --- a/README > +++ b/README > @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ Preparing system for tests (IRIX and Linux): > environment variable set to "yes" will enable their use. > - setenv DIFF_LENGTH "number of diff lines to print from a failed test", > by default 10, set to 0 to print the full diff > + - setenv FSTYP "the filesystem you want to test", the filesystem > + type is devised from the TEST_DEV device, but you may want to > + override it > - or add a case to the switch in common/config assigning > these variables based on the hostname of your test > machine > diff --git a/check b/check > index 320ad26b7c2c..9e4275b1fa37 100755 > --- a/check > +++ b/check > @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ showme=false > have_test_arg=false > randomize=false > here=`pwd` > -FSTYP=xfs > +FSTYP=${FSTYP:-xfs} ":-xfs" means assign the value of $xfs if $FTYPE is null. xfs is not a variable.... > xfile="" > > # start the initialisation work now > @@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ then > exit 1 > fi > > -# Autodetect fs type based on what's on $TEST_DEV > -if [ "$HOSTOS" == "Linux" ]; then > +# Autodetect fs type based on what's on $TEST_DEV unless it's been set > +# externally > +if [ -z "$FSTYP" -a "$HOSTOS" == "Linux" ]; then If the default value expansion is fixed, FSTYP will always have a value here Hence it will never, ever probe. > FSTYP=`blkid -c /dev/null -s TYPE -o value $TEST_DEV` > fi > export FSTYP I suspect what you want is: -FSTYP=xfs ..... if [ -z "$FSTYP" -a "$HOSTOS" == "Linux" ]; then FSTYP=`blkid -c /dev/null -s TYPE -o value $TEST_DEV` fi FSTYP=${FSTYP:=xfs} export FSTYP Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs