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


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.24.161-1204d
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:03:20 +0000
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On 18/01/16 19:27, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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

3 patches attached that hopefully address these issues.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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