Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] overlay: mount/unmount base fs before/after running tests

Theodore Ts'o
2017-02-14T17:08:16Z

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 08:43:36AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>
> Correct. The only thing that overlay does not do is format the base fs,
> as the README says:
> - for overlay tests: ./check -overlay [test(s)]
> The TEST and SCRATCH partitions should be pre-formatted
> with another base fs, where the overlay dirs will be created
>

So this means that if I only want to do the equivalent of:

gce-xfstests -c overlay generic/013

as part of a bisection search, it's impossible to do this via the
config file and "./check -s ext4-overlay generic/013" alone. Someone
who wants to do this will have to use their own wrapper script to
format the base file system with the proper file system.

Correct?

Which is fine, I have my own wrapper script system. :-)

- Ted