Re: [RFC xfstests PATCH] xfstests: add a writeback error handling test

2017-04-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > With the patch series above, ext4 now passes. xfs and btrfs end up in > r/o mode after the test. xfs returns -EIO at that point though, and > btrfs returns -EROFS. What behavior we actually want there, I'm not > certain. We might be

[RFC xfstests PATCH] xfstests: add a writeback error handling test

2017-04-24 Thread Jeff Layton
This is just an RFC set for now. I've numbered it 999 for the moment so as not to collide with tests being added. I'm working on a set of kernel patches to change how writeback errors are handled and reported in the kernel. Instead of reporting a writeback error to only the first fsync caller on