This was actually an alternative proposed instead of moving /tmp to /var/tmp [1]. I applied this patch last week in place of the /var/tmp changes and it is working well with my setup! It is actually nicer than the /var/tmp approach as I don't have to do as much xml formatting in gce-xfstests. - Leah [1] https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/20221212230646.4022294-1-leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx/