When creating a new dentry (of any type), NFS will optimize away any on-the-wire lookups prior to the create since that means an extra round trip to the server. Because of that, it consistently fails this test. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tests/generic/294 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/generic/294 b/tests/generic/294 index 406b1b3954b9..777b62aec9ad 100755 --- a/tests/generic/294 +++ b/tests/generic/294 @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ _begin_fstest auto quick # real QA test starts here +# NFS will optimize away the on-the-wire lookup before attempting to +# create a new file (since that means an extra round trip). +test $FSTYP = "nfs" && _notrun "NFS optmizes away lookups on exclusive creates" + # Modify as appropriate. _supported_fs generic _require_scratch -- 2.41.0