bug#6131: [PATCH]: fiemap support for efficient sparse file copy

[Jim Meyering]

jeff.liu wrote:
...
>>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] tests: add a new test for FIEMAP-copy
>>>
>>> * tests/cp/sparse-fiemap: Add a new test for FIEMAP-copy against a
>>> loopbacked ext4 partition.
>>> * tests/Makefile.am (sparse-fiemap): Reference the new test.

BTW, I've just made this additional change to your test,

diff --git a/tests/cp/sparse-fiemap b/tests/cp/sparse-fiemap
index 6312a4c..bdc7ded 100755
--- a/tests/cp/sparse-fiemap
+++ b/tests/cp/sparse-fiemap
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ require_root_
 cwd=`pwd`
 cleanup_() { cd /; umount "$cwd/mnt"; }

+skip=0
 # Create an ext4 loopback file system
 dd if=/dev/zero of=blob bs=8192 count=1000 || skip=1
 mkdir mnt

And will push this correction to the one you appear to have used as a model:

>From c9bcbc8f9fc791c97bc85678f5f22458a76689ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:55:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tests: fix cp-a-selinux to skip cleanly upon mkfs failure

* tests/cp/cp-a-selinux: Initialize skip, to avoid a syntax error
in subsequent "test".
---
 tests/cp/cp-a-selinux |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/cp/cp-a-selinux b/tests/cp/cp-a-selinux
index b65070a..5b9ff0f 100755
--- a/tests/cp/cp-a-selinux
+++ b/tests/cp/cp-a-selinux
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ test -s err && fail=1   #there must be no stderr output for -a
 ls -Z e | grep $ctx || fail=1
 ls -Z f | grep $ctx || fail=1

-
+skip=0
 # Create a file system, then mount it with the context=... option.
 dd if=/dev/zero of=blob bs=8192 count=200 > /dev/null 2>&1 \
                                              || skip=1
--
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