From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:17:42 +0100 Subject: [LTP] [RFC PATCH 1/1] Remove nfsv4 In-Reply-To: References: <20200720091449.19813-1-pvorel@suse.cz> Message-ID: <20200720151742.GA16973@infradead.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it 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 * outdated tests (from 2005) 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.