Re: [PATCH] xfstests: stop special casing nfs and udf

Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-12T18:32:26Z

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:18:59PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 11/7/13, 2:46 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > For historical reasons beyond my knowledge xfstests tries to abuse the
> > scratch device as test device for nfs and udf. Because not all test
> > have inherited the right usage of the _setup_testdir and _cleanup_testdir
> > helpers this leads to lots of unessecary test failures.
> >
> > Remove the special casing, which gets nfs down to a minimal number of
> > failures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
>
> Oof, that was a lot of cruft. Were you able to run UDF tests with
> these changes? I wonder if Jan is using this for UDF?

I didn't bother testing udf, but it's just another block based
filesystem, so unlike NFS I didn't expect breakage. Let me give it a
spin..

> (I don't have the UDF verifier that many(/all?) of the UDF tests
> require).

Last time I did run xfstests on UDF it wasn't required, just an
additional tool to verify the fs consistency.