Created attachment 884433 [details] patch + spec changes Description of problem: Coreutils builds fine on AArch64. But builders for this architecture are using XFS when rest of Fedora builders are Ext4. This creates an issue cause dd/sparse.sh test fails on XFS (works on tmpfs, ext4). One of solutions is to disable test which this patch does. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.22-13 How reproducible: always on xfs Steps to Reproduce: 1. create xfs filesystem 2. build coreutils package 3. watch it fails Actual results: FAIL: tests/dd/sparse.sh Expected results: package builds Additional info:
Thanks for report, I believe I have already seen such report somewhere - can't find it now, though. No need for attaching such patches - especially when you attach just the spec file changes and not the patch. I think disabling tests for builders is perfectly fine temporary solution - and we already disable some tests due to various koji build failures, but maybe we can find something more generic here.
Ah, now I see... original one is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075679 , RHEL-6 - with several links to upstream commits supposed to fix that. If the issue is still not fixed, probably fixes need to be extended to cover even the current failures.
Created attachment 884442 [details] patch + spec oops, forgot to add patch part. Patches mentioned in bug 1075679 are part of 8.22 release.
Yes, I know they are part of 8.22 - I just wanted to point out that upstream likely intends to fix the test for xfs/nfs and skip only necessary parts - not whole test based on the fstype. We will see - for now I'm fine with just skipping the test in koji builds.
This is indicating v surprising behavior on XFS. I've sent a query to the xfs mailing list. Will workaround upstream in any case.
Created attachment 885638 [details] avoid XFS speculative preallocation test issues Details of this discussion at thread starting at: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-04/msg00285.html
Committed to distgit -> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140407/1223907.html -> CLOSED RAWHIDE. Thanks Pádraig!