Test case 631 fails for filesystems like exfat or vfat or any other which does not support extended attributes. The main reason for failure is not being able to mount overlayfs with filesystems that do not support extended attributes. mount -t overlay overlay -o "$l,$u,$w,$i" $mergedir Above command would return an error as - /var/mnt/scratch/merged0: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on overlay, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. dmesg log reports the following - overlayfs: filesystem on '/var/mnt/scratch/upperdir1' not supported As per the overlayfs documentation - "A wide range of filesystems supported by Linux can be the lower filesystem, but not all filesystems that are mountable by Linux have the features needed for OverlayFS to work. The lower filesystem does not need to be writable. The lower filesystem can even be another overlayfs. The upper filesystem will normally be writable and if it is it must support the creation of trusted.* and/or user.* extended attributes, and must provide valid d_type in readdir responses, so NFS is not suitable. A read-only overlay of two read-only filesystems may use any filesystem type." As per the above statements from the overlayfs documentation, it is clear that filesystems that do not support extended attributes would not work with overlayfs. This is why we see the error in dmesg log for upperdir1 which had an exfat filesystem. Hence, add a check for extended attributes which would avoid running this tests for filesystems that are not supported. Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tests/generic/631 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/generic/631 b/tests/generic/631 index c43f3de3..c7f0190e 100755 --- a/tests/generic/631 +++ b/tests/generic/631 @@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ _cleanup() # get standard environment, filters and checks . ./common/rc +. ./common/attr # real QA test starts here _supported_fs generic _require_scratch +_require_attrs test "$FSTYP" = "overlay" && _notrun "Test does not apply to overlayfs." _require_extra_fs overlay -- 2.30.2
