Re: [PATCH] xfstests: test for atime-related mount options

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

On 2/14/14, 10:39 AM, David Sterba wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:42:55AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> +cat /proc/mounts | grep "$SCRATCH_MNT" | grep relatime >> $seqres.full
>>> +[ $? -ne 0 ] && echo "The relatime mount option should be the default."
>>
>> Ok, I guess "relatime" in /proc/mounts is from core vfs code and
>> should be there for the foreseeable future, so seems ok.
>>
>> But - relatime was added in v2.6.20, and made default in 2.6.30.  So
>> testing older kernels may not go as expected; it'd probably be best to
>> catch situations where relatime isn't available (< 2.6.20) or not
>> default (< 2.6.30), by explicitly mounting with relatime, and skipping
>> relatime/strictatime tests if that fails?
> 
> Is there some consensus what's the lowest kernel version to be supported
> by xfstests? 2.6.32 is the lowest base for kernels in use today, so
> worrying about anything older does not seem necessary.
> 

I don't know that it's been discussed - selfishly, I know our QE uses
xfstests on RHEL5, which is 2.6.18-based.

-Eric