Re: [PATCH 1/2] fstests: use mount/umount helpers everywhere

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On 3/20/15 1:56 PM, Zach Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:13:47AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Replace every explicit mount/umount of scratch or test devices
>> with helper functions.  This allows the next patch to add in hooks
>> to these functions in order to set up & tear down overlayfs on
>> every mount/umount.
> 
> Yeah, I don't know about this.
> 
> For nfs testing we don't setup xfstests to test xfs on block devices and
> then then magically configure nfs to export and mount it on the side.
> 
> Wouldn't we treat overlayfs the same way?  It'd be its own fstype whose
> underlying resources are fs paths?

Yeah, maybe I need to rethink it.  TBH, I'm not really clear on how
nfs gets set up in fstests, but I guess I should look.

Thanks,
-Eric

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