[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#994418: ocfs2-tools: failing autopkgtest on one of ci.d.n amd64 workers

[Valentin Vidic]

Hi Paul,

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 08:34:06AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> It was pointed out to me on IRC that the mount of /tmp with `nodev` is
> probably the issue here. I'm discussion if we should just drop that.

The failing test does not use a device so this probably won't help. I
tried updating the test to use losetup, but it turns out losetup does
not work with lxc.

It seems that O_DIRECT on tmpfs is a know problem and other software
like mysql also doesn't work on tmpfs. There were some kernel patches
to allow O_DIRECT on tmpfs, but they were probably not accepted.

Perhaps it be possible not to use tmpfs for $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP, or was that
the goal in the first place?

-- 
Valentin