Re: [Acl-devel] attr.test failures

[Andreas Grünbacher]

William,

2015-02-20 23:54 GMT+01:00 Douglas, William <address@hidden>:
> Hello all,
>
> Some of the attr.tests seem to be ext2/3/4 specific (namely setfattr
> -name user.; the getfattr for the "Try various valid and invalid
> names" section; and the ls -s in the "Everything with one file"
> section)
>
> Namely these tests all fail on btrfs and tmpfs where their isn't a
> prefix handler and should probably be moved into the ext tests
> section. Is that something reasonable and would you accept a patch
> for?

I've just removed some tests which have become pretty meaningless, so
"make check" will now succeed on file systems with user.* extended
attribuute support. If we don't expect user.* extended attribute
support, there isn't much left we can test at all. So what do you
propose to do?

Thanks,
Andreas