On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 08:43:36AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: >> >> Correct. The only thing that overlay does not do is format the base fs, >> as the README says: >> - for overlay tests: ./check -overlay [test(s)] >> The TEST and SCRATCH partitions should be pre-formatted >> with another base fs, where the overlay dirs will be created >> > > So this means that if I only want to do the equivalent of: > > gce-xfstests -c overlay generic/013 > > as part of a bisection search, it's impossible to do this via the > config file and "./check -s ext4-overlay generic/013" alone. Someone > who wants to do this will have to use their own wrapper script to > format the base file system with the proper file system. > > Correct? > Correct. I guess it wouldn't be that hard to add mkfs/fsck support for base fs, but for now my budget to deal with this is over. I may get to it another time. > Which is fine, I have my own wrapper script system. :-) > Do we have something like: ./check -s ext4 --setup-only Should we have something like this? Will this do the trick? ./check -s ext4 -n generic/013 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
