Changeset f9431b6

Timestamp:

10/28/2015 09:45:44 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

a78d8510

Parents:

09765cf

Message:

Add further explanations for LVM2 tests. Thanks to Fernando for interesting
discussions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@16573 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• postlfs/filesystems/lvm2.xml (modified) (1 diff)

postlfs/filesystems/lvm2.xml

@@ -167 +167 @@
       available and can be listed with <command>make -C test help</command>.
       The test timings are very dependent on the speed of the disk(s), and on
-      the number of enabled kernel options. A number of tests may fail.
+      the number of enabled kernel options.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Those tests do not implement the <quote>expected fail</quote> possibility,
+      and a small number of tests failures is expected by upstream. More
+      failures may happen because some kernel options are missing. For example,
+      the lack of the <emphasis>dm-delay</emphasis> device mapper target may
+      explain up to 10 failures or so. Some tests are incorrectly flagged
+      <quote>broken</quote> if
+      <ulink url='https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools'>
+      thin-provisioning-tools</ulink> are not installed. A workaround is to
+      add the following flags to <command>configure</command>:
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>     --with-thin-check=    \
+     --with-thin-dump=     \
+     --with-thin-repair=   \
+     --with-thin-restore=  \
+     --with-cache-check=   \
+     --with-cache-dump=    \
+     --with-cache-repair=  \
+     --with-cache-restore= \</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
       One test has been reported to hang, and can be disabled via <command>rm
       test/shell/snapshot-remove-dmsetup.sh</command>. Other tests may hang