Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix failing overlay nonsamefs fstests

Amir Goldstein
2018-04-18T14:30:36Z

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI, Miklos has a patch set in review to fix the last of the
>> non-standard behavior tracking test that is still failing (overlay/016).
>> After that patch set is merged, all overlay tests will be expected to
>> pass on master - new era ;-)
>
> Oh, we can write new tests that don't pass ;)
>
> For example -ostrictatime mounts are not going to behave POSIX'ly (and
> probably nobody cares, but still). And we have that minor weirdness
> with directory nlink being constant 1. And probably some others.

FYI, ext4 also has directories with nlink 1 with the dir_nlink feature,
so no big deal.

Thanks,
Amir.