From: Amir Goldstein Subject: Re: Regression with ext4 in kernel 2.6.39-rc7? (Was: testing ext4 master branch) Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:25:02 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20110513145608.GA21165@thunk.org> <4DCD4D5E.6050307@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Eric Sandeen , Ext4 Developers List , Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:55864 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759745Ab1EMRZE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 13:25:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4DCD4D5E.6050307@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Eric Sandeen wrot= e: > On 5/13/11 9:56 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:17:03PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: >>> >>> Can anyone try to reproduce the error with xfstest 005 and the cras= h >>> with xfstest 232? >> >> Xfstest #5 broke because of a change in the VFS, which now allows up >> to 40 nested symlinks. =A0So that's a matter of your xfstests being = too >> old. >> >> The version of xfstests I've been using on my KVM box is too old to >> have test 232, so I haven't been able to test it. =A0I've been tryin= g to >> use a newer version of xfstests, but xfstests doesn't build on eithe= r >> Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS), Debian stable, or Debian unstable, due to the us= e >> of newer XFS ioctl's and xfsctl's that aren't defined in the system >> header files. =A0The fact that it doesn't work on Ubuntu LTS and Sta= ble >> is not that surprising, I suppose, but I was a bit disappointed that >> it doesn't work on Debian unstable. > > I missed that bug report :) =A0If you can send me the details of the > failures we can probably add configure tests for any new ioctls > that are causing build failures. > >> Since I don't have a Fedora system handy --- which header file are >> things like "struct xfs_flock64" supposed to be defined these days? > > Hm, well, on my Fedora system, /usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h, from xfspro= gs-devel. > > I don't think that has changed in a very long time... > > I also package an xfsprogs-qa-devel which has some additional pieces = in > it to support xfstests. =A0Debian could do the same ... "make install= -qa" > in xfsprogs puts those bits into the root. > After xfstests failed to build on Ubuntu 10.10, I followed the advice = omitted by the build script to run "make install-qa", to solve the problem. It took me a while to figure exactly where I should run the command, but in the end I pulled the xfsprogs tree, ran "make; make install; make install-qa" and from there on things were looking better. Amir. > -Eric > >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- Ted >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4= " in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html