Re: [PATCH] xfs/507: use mount -t xfs

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:49:30 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.fstests,org.kernel.vger.linux-xfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 08:46:50AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 02:59:55PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Sometimes mount wants to try every other file system but XFS when
> > mounting the loop image, making this test fail.  Force mounting as XFS
> > to make it reliably pass.
> 
> Weird.  Do you know why it does that?  Did the kernel really skip xfs or
> were the sb verifiers simply running in quiet mode?

Not really.  I also happens in weird patches, I can reproduce it a few
times in a row, but just when I get ready to investigate the problem,
it goes away.