Hi Bruce, Trond, > 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 * outdated tests (from 2005) 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. > Just for fun, I grepped through old mail to see if I could find any > cases of these tests being used. I found one, in which Chuck reports an > nfslock01 failure. Looks like it did find a real bug, which we fixed: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/8DF85CB6-5FEB-4A25-9715-C9808F37A4B1@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20160807185024.11705.10864.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks for your explanation, this obviously justify these tests in LTP, unless you want to move it to git.linux-nfs.org and maintain on your own. Kind regards, Petr
