Attempt to create a raid5 array with --write-zeros. If it is successful
check the array to ensure it is in sync.
If it is unsuccessful and an unsupported error is printed, skip the
test.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Acked-by: Kinga Tanska <kinga.tanska@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
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+
+if mdadm -CfR $md0 -l 5 -n3 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 --write-zeroes ; then
+ check nosync
+ echo check > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action;
+ check wait
+elif grep "zeroing [^ ]* failed: Operation not supported" \
+ $targetdir/stderr; then
+ echo "write-zeros not supported, skipping"
+else
+ echo >&2 "ERROR: mdadm return failure without not supported message"
+ exit 1
+fi