Re: [PATCH] generic/347: Fix sporadic test failures

Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.fstests
Message-ID <vrvi6rqzklajkzyon4c6fl63gm6mdjolr27bbzdtslq7pp3qik@ubmqf4z7sddh>
On Thu 13-08-26 02:23:36, Zorro Lang wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 05:18:17PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > generic/347 was occasionally failing on ext4 in our QA due to ext4
> > aborting its journal when the filesystem on thinp device was overfilled.
> > I have tracked the problem down to journal checkpointing failing to
> > write a metadata block to its final location due to ENOSPC failure from
> > the thinp device. Modify the test to first preallocate blocks for the
> > files and remount the filesystem which practically makes sure all
> > involved metadata blocks were written and so their further modifications
> > will not fail.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
> > ---
> 
> Since there're no further review comments/objections so far, I'll merge this
> patch with one small addition: "_require_xfs_io_command falloc".
> 
> Reviewed-by: Zorro Lang <[email protected]>

Thanks!

								Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR
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