From: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: fix seek_sanity_test for fs w/o fallocate
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 07:42:08 -0500
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On 05/31/2013 10:45 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> currently the seek_sanity_test (generic/285) fails on ext3
> or ext2 due to fallocate() failures.  Just ignore that test
> if the fs doesn't support fallocate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Thanks Eric and Zheng, this has been committed.

commit 3e889c6735117e0906c339ffae0dbc17a4df27fb
Author: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 3 07:28:17 2013 -0500

     xfstests: fix seek_sanity_test for fs w/o fallocate

(Rich adds another step to his commit procedure to prevent this from 
happening again)

--Rich