Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:

> On 08/02/11 10:14, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 08/02/11 08:42, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Do you think it's worth resorting to the FS-name-based
>>> test when python is not available?
>>
>> I don't think so, because df can currently allow the test to proceed
>> erroneously:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-02/msg00018.html
>> Also the overlap of fiemap capable systems with python should be good.
>
> Here's a further update to the fiemap checking in tests,
> which will enable those tests on BTRFS.
> I'm holding off on this however until we figure out
> exactly what to do about the BTRFS vs EXT4 fiemap differences.
...
> Subject: [PATCH] test: support more file systems in the cp fiemap tests
>
> * tests/cp/fiemap-perf: Check for fiemap support against a file
> rather than a directory to enable tests on BTRFS for example.
> Explicity disable the test on ext3 or file systems where we
> can't determine the type.
> * tests/cp/sparse-fiemap: Likewise.
> * tests/init.cfg: Comment that BTRFS only supports fiemap
> for regular files.

Looks good.
Running tests where they are less likely to malfunction...

Thanks!