Hi Christoph, > > 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 * outdated tests (from 2005) 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. > In the past Yong Sun moved some ext4 related tests from LTP to xfstests. > LTP has various NFS related tests. IMHO more important than where these tests > should be is if anybody has a deeper look into them an cleanup them / rewrite > them from scratch. Although xfstests sounds like a natural choice, atm there are quite a lot NFS tests in LTP. xfstests contain only single NFS test. IMHO it's a choice of anybody who rewrites these tests whether he tries to put them to LTP or into xfstests. If it were me I'd probably keep them in LTP, because I prefer LTP framework capabilities. Kind regards, Petr
