Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 01:54:46 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: review: xfstests/016 change
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On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:29:27PM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> xfstests/016 has been failing for a while in many cases.
> It was relying on the log traffic for create/rm to be unaltered
> in XFS over the life of XFS.
> Its initial purpose was to test out the writing of the log around
> wrapping and checking that as we wrapped we didn't corrupt any data
> after the end of the log.
>
> The patch is to modify xfstest, 016, to take a sampling of the log traffic
> to guestimate how many ops are needed to get to the end of the log,
> instead of hard-coding in how many ops are expected to get there.

I get four rejects out of four hunk when trying to apply this patch,
looks like whitespace-damage.