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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: XFS Mailing List <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Failure of xfstest 229
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:13:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110520171304.GA20208@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305909303.7661.373.camel@chandra-lucid.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:35:03AM -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> 
> Can it run successfully by fluke sometimes ? I did have a successful run
> on the 20G filesystem yesterday once, but not able to reproduce it again

It doesn't fail on thinly provisioned storage which zeroes out any
blocks it gives to the OS.  Similarly it might not fail if all blocks
that it would normally leak are zeroed underneath for some reason,
but it's rather unlikely that this happens by accident.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-20  0:55 Failure of xfstest 229 Chandra Seetharaman
2011-05-20  2:58 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-20 16:35   ` Chandra Seetharaman
2011-05-20 17:13     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-05-20 19:01       ` Chandra Seetharaman

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