Re: [LTP] Running from tmpfs

chrubis
2012-12-10T15:12:17Z

Hi!
> I'd like to know if LTP tests can be run entirely from tmpfs? My system
> has rootfs mounted read-only, and I would like to avoid remounting it.
> Do you have tests that require write access to rootfs?

Not for writing, there were some buggy tests that utilized / directly
but that should have been fixed (at least I hope so). If you find such
testcase it's considered a bug.

> I've succeeded in running the runltplite.sh set of tests from tmpfs, but
> to accomplish this with runalltests.sh minor modifications to the script
> is required.
>
> So, I started wondering, is the limitation because of inherit properties
> of the tests, or just poor paramerization of the script.

I would say poorly written script, and as usuall patches are welcome ;).

--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz

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