On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 FYI, for upcoming V4, I recalled the support for overlay sections (i.e. it is an undocumented feature), but verified that multi section can run with -overlay, as long as the sections only change mount options, e.g.: [xfs] TEST_DEV=/dev/sda5 TEST_DIR=/mnt/test SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/sda6 SCRATCH_MNT=/mnt/scratch MKFS_OPTIONS="-f -m rmapbt=1,reflink=1" FSTYP=xfs [xfs_pquota] MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o pquota" TEST_FS_MOUNT_OPTS="-o noatime" OVERLAY_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o redirect_dir=off" I will collect some of these example in README.overlay -- 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
