Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] Remove nfsv4

Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-20T15:17:54Z

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:32:09PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 11:14 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > Reasons to drop:
> > * outdated tests (from 2005)
> > * not used (NFS kernel maintainers use pynfs [1])
> > * written in Python (we support C and shell, see [2])
> >
> > [1] http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=bfields/pynfs.git;a=summary
> > [2] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/547
> >
>
> Unlike pynfs, these tests run on a real NFS client, and were designed
> to test client implementations, as well as the servers.
>
> So if they get dropped from ltp, then we will have to figure out some
> other way of continuing to maintain them.

NFS tests using the kernel sound like a prime candidate for xfstests.