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authorDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>2018-05-21 09:07:34 -0700
committerEryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>2018-05-22 11:03:49 +0800
commit954f28239b4c74e7b234f8473ee640c306d7b169 (patch)
treed98bc54adfed0c4d7f948f860328d6c0c40ea944
parent78f713a198eda619c4255bce6a95e5a8e93d85bb (diff)
downloadxfstests-dev-954f28239b4c74e7b234f8473ee640c306d7b169.tar.gz
generic/475: fix confusing comment
The comment about the dmerror switcheroo is hard to understand and wrong. Fix both problems by rewriting it. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
-rwxr-xr-xtests/generic/4758
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tests/generic/475 b/tests/generic/475
index e31f1251c5..4507227841 100755
--- a/tests/generic/475
+++ b/tests/generic/475
@@ -73,9 +73,11 @@ for i in $(seq 1 $((50 * TIME_FACTOR)) ); do
# recovery
sleep $((RANDOM % 3))
- # Loading error table without "--nolockfs" option. Because "--nolockfs"
- # won't freeze fs, then some running I/Os may cause XFS to shutdown
- # prematurely. That's not what we want to test.
+ # This test aims to simulate sudden disk failure, which means that we
+ # do not want to quiesce the filesystem or otherwise give it a chance
+ # to flush its logs. Therefore we want to call dmsetup with the
+ # --nolockfs parameter; to make this happen we must call the load
+ # error table helper *without* 'lockfs'.
_dmerror_load_error_table
ps -e | grep fsstress > /dev/null 2>&1