Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 08/02/11 08:42, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Do you think it's worth resorting to the FS-name-based
>> test when python is not available?
>
> I don't think so, because df can currently allow the test to proceed 
> erroneously:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-02/msg00018.html

That's fine (I did see that).

> Also the overlap of fiemap capable systems with python should be good.

However, when python is not available, we would skip with this
misleading diagnostic:

   fiemap_capable_ . \
     || skip_ "this file system lacks FIEMAP support"

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