On 01/20/2014 04:45 PM, Wang Xiaoguang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     When I used tst_mkfs() to build a file system with extra mkfs
> options, like that:
>     tst_mkfs(NULL, device, "ext4", "-b 1024"); /* device is /dev/loop0 */
>  
>     It will output this error message:
>     TINFO  :  Formatting /dev/loop0 with ext4 extra opts='-b 1024'
>     mke2fs 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013)
>     mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks '/dev/loop0' on device 'ext4'
> 
> I look through tst_mkfs()'s implementations,
>     the call chain is: tst_mkfs =>  tst_run_cmd => tst_run_cmd_fds
> =>  _exit(execvp(argv[0], (char *const *)argv));
> 
>    in this case argv will be like that:
>    char *argv[] = {"mkfs", "-t", "ext4", "-b 1024", "/dev/loop0", NULL},
> then we finally call mkfs like that:
>    mkfs -t ext4 "-b 1024" /dev/loop0  # this may make command mkfs parse
>                                                            # arguments failed.
> 
> Indeed the right command should be:  mkfs -t ext4 -b 1024 /dev/loop0.
> 
> So I think there are some problems here, if we want to pass extra fs options.
> Would you please review this? If so, I can send a patch to fix this.

Should be fixed, please send a patch.

Thanks,
Wanlong Gao

> 
> Thanks,
> Xiaoguang Wang
> 
> 
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