On 2/14/14, 10:39 AM, David Sterba wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:42:55AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> +cat /proc/mounts | grep "$SCRATCH_MNT" | grep relatime >> $seqres.full >>> +[ $? -ne 0 ] && echo "The relatime mount option should be the default." >> >> Ok, I guess "relatime" in /proc/mounts is from core vfs code and >> should be there for the foreseeable future, so seems ok. >> >> But - relatime was added in v2.6.20, and made default in 2.6.30. So >> testing older kernels may not go as expected; it'd probably be best to >> catch situations where relatime isn't available (< 2.6.20) or not >> default (< 2.6.30), by explicitly mounting with relatime, and skipping >> relatime/strictatime tests if that fails? > > Is there some consensus what's the lowest kernel version to be supported > by xfstests? 2.6.32 is the lowest base for kernels in use today, so > worrying about anything older does not seem necessary. >
I don't know that it's been discussed - selfishly, I know our QE uses xfstests on RHEL5, which is 2.6.18-based. -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
