Re: discuss NFS xfstest failures

[bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 01:01:39PM -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We have some output at the wiki --
> https://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Xfstests -- capturing a data
> point of failures (for 4.16 kernel). However, I see many more failures
> with the current (5.1-rc1). Wiki output should probably be updated
> since xfstest has now 500+ tests. I have done my best to go over the
> failures and provide some summary and comments. I'd like to see if the
> community has any comments. Anybody else would like to share their
> outputs from the xfstests that show other failures?

For what it's worth, I keep a list in testd/data/xfstests-failed with
some minimal comments:

	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/testd.git

Current contents appended.  As you can see there's a lot that's known
unsupported features, but also a lot that I just haven't looked into
yet.

--b.

# http://people.redhat.com/bcodding/nfs/2016/10/07/nfs_xfstest_generic/
generic/035
generic/087
generic/294
generic/306
# We don't support all fallocate modes
generic/031
generic/017
generic/062
generic/071
generic/422
generic/469
generic/499
# no fiemap
generic/032
generic/094
generic/225
generic/425
# no xattrs
generic/037
generic/337
generic/377
generic/403
generic/454
# NFSv4+ doesn't support system.posix_acl_access xattr:
generic/053
generic/105
# xfstests used to skip this, not sure why it stopped:
generic/064
# no support for fs freezing
generic/068
generic/491
# needs root?
generic/184
generic/434
# FIBMAP unsupported
generic/519
# ---- need further triage:
generic/033
generic/088 # intermittent ?
generic/089 # intermittent ?
generic/126
generic/277
generic/423
generic/426
generic/465
generic/478
# "record lock is not preserved across execve(2)"
generic/484
# need a larger device?
generic/485
generic/486