On 01/05/2019 13.08, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > >> "check -raw 005" fails when running on ext4 filesystems - these do not >> support such large sparse files. Use the same check as in test 220 to >> skip the test in this case. >> >> Suggested-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> >> --- >> tests/qemu-iotests/005 | 9 +++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/005 b/tests/qemu-iotests/005 >> index 2fef63af88..6136ced5c8 100755 >> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/005 >> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/005 >> @@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ if [ "$IMGPROTO" = "sheepdog" ]; then >> _notrun "image protocol $IMGPROTO does not support large image sizes" >> fi >> >> +# Sanity check: For raw, we require a file system that permits the creation >> +# of a HUGE (but very sparse) file. tmpfs works, ext4 does not. > > Is this comment correct? Running on my ext4 home partition this test > seems to be running fine and not skipping. Maybe it depends on the kernel version (I'm still using a 3.10-based kernel here) or the way how the file system was created? It fails at least for me on my ext4 partition. But I can adjust a little bit for sure.
Thomas
