[LU-11544] interop: sanity-quota test 10 fails with 'set limit for root user successfully, expect failure'

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Priority: Minor
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.12.0, Lustre 2.12.1, Lustre 2.14.0, Lustre 2.12.4
• Labels: interop
• Environment: Interop testing between master (2.12) servers and b2_10 or b2_11 clients
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: James Nunez (Inactive)
• Reporter: James Nunez (Inactive)

Description

sanity-quota test 10 started failing in interop testing on July 04, 2018 for the following combinations:
master, 2.11.52.82 and later, servers with
2.10.4 RC2 and later clients
2.11.0 clients

Looking at the client test_log for https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/8b3d250a-cf0d-11e8-ad90-52540065bddc , we see

== sanity-quota test 10: Test quota for root user ==================================================== 12:22:35 (1539433355)
Waiting for local destroys to complete
Creating test directory
CMD: onyx-45vm7,onyx-45vm8 lctl set_param fail_val=0 fail_loc=0
fail_val=0
fail_loc=0
fail_val=0
fail_loc=0
warning: inode softlimit is smaller than the miminal qunit size, please see the help of setquota or Lustre manual for details.
 sanity-quota test_10: @@@@@@ FAIL: set limit for root user successfully, expect failure

Based on the starting date of this failure, I think the cause of this issue is that the patch for LU-7816, https://review.whamcloud.com/32306 , has not landed to the b2_10 and b2_11 branches.

Logs for this failure can be found at
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/d0934eba-7fb0-11e8-b441-52540065bddc
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/84564b96-9582-11e8-b0aa-52540065bddc
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/af4c42d6-97dc-11e8-87f3-52540065bddc
https://testing.whamcloud.com/test_sets/5de84b06-ce32-11e8-ad90-52540065bddc

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-12100 sanity-quota test_2: user create failure, but expect success