Bug 1075679

Summary:	Cannot rebuild coreutils on XFS filesystem - sparse test fails
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Pat Riehecky <riehecky>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Tomas Dolezal <todoleza>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.5	CC:	csieh, misterbonnie, psklenar
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	coreutils-8.4-33.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Some filesystems (like XFS) may have special features like speculative preallocation of holes. Consequence: This can cause failure of the dd test in the upstream testsuite - and therefore failure of the rebuild on xfs filesystem. Fix: Test logic was improved to prevent failures in such situations. Result: Coreutils package source rpm can be rebuilt even on xfs.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-10-14 06:34:32 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Pat Riehecky 2014-03-12 15:09:01 UTC

Description of problem: The dd/sparse test fails when run on the XFS filesystem.  The exact same binaries run on EXT4 pass the test.

The failing test is on line 62 of tests/dd/sparse


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):coreutils-8.4-31.el6_5.1


How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.populate buildroot on XFS
2.rpmbuild -bb coreutils*.src.rpm
3.build fails
4.repeat on EXT4, build passes

Actual results:
dd sparse test does not work on XFS

Expected results:
dd sparse test should work on all supported filesystems

Additional info:

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2014-03-12 15:27:39 UTC

Upstream fixes that issue by http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/tests/dd/sparse?id=8195165839877eece7984dd08613323e96424cea and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/tests/dd/sparse?id=d42f3a4d41034d099bf29ade22221b401528c060 ... actually more filesystems seem to be an issue for that specific tests (e.g. NFS - where some parts need to be skipped - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/tests/dd/sparse?id=4b101ccd176eb3951bfbab717a0a3b5e2c4d19ef ).

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 06:34:32 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1457.html