Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.24.161-1204d

[Pádraig Brady]

On 18/01/16 18:18, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Sorry for the last-minute post, but found 4 failures that might relate to 
> GPFS file-system ( 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_General_Parallel_File_System ).
> 
> The system is
>    CentOS 7
>    kernel 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64
>    gcc version 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9) (GCC)
> 
> $ df --output=source,size,used,avail,pcent,target,fstype  -h .
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on    Type
> /dev/commons    2.8P  2.2P  598T  79% /gpfs/commons gpfs
> 
> tested with
>    coreutils-8.24.163-3f02d
> 
> The failed tests are:
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/F-headers
>    FAIL: tests/tail-2/retry

General problem with tail really on any remote file system.

  tail: 'a' has been replaced with a remote file. giving up on this name

We should probably disable inotify if there are no files opened,
as otherwise tail -F is unusable on remote file systems in that use case.

I'll do further testing on NFS.

>    FAIL: tests/misc/shred-passes

We ran out of simulated random data
(maybe due to extra buffering or something):

  shred: 'Us': end of file

I'll look into increasing it.

>    FAIL: tests/cp/preserve-slink-time

-2016-01-18 12:21:28.294123000 -0500
+2016-01-18 12:21:28.296528000 -0500

cp -Pp didn't seem to preserve the timestamp on GPFS.
I'd need access to the system to see why.
I'd test with touch -d '...' to see if the timestamp was honored

thanks,
Pádraig