[LTP] [PATCH 0/3] tst_device: add support for overlayfs

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> > tst_tmpdir.c:316: TINFO: Using /mnt/fstests/TEST_DIR/ovl-mnt/ltp-hSHEHy5M0s/LTP_aio4q4GMW as tmpdir (overlayfs filesystem)
> > tst_test.c:1888: TINFO: LTP version: 20220121-2271-g91a10df22
> > tst_test.c:1892: TINFO: Tested kernel: vendor kernel
> > tst_test.c:1723: TINFO: Timeout per run is 0h 40m 00s
> > aiocp.c:211: TINFO: Maximum AIO blocks: 65536
> > tst_device.c:551: TINFO: Use BTRFS specific strategy
> > tst_device.c:569: TBROK: BTRFS ioctl failed. Is . on a tmpfs?: ENOTTY (25)
> 
> > The issue is that stat(2) on an overlayfs mount point will return a
> > major device number of 0.  The code assumes this is btrfs, and tries
> > to issue a btrfs-specific ioctl.  When that fails, the final message is
> > printed that suggests this might be tmpfs.
> 
> > I modified the code to use statfs(2) to get the file system type, and
> > use that to determine which file system specific code to call.  Finally, I
> > added code to parse out the upper directory from the overlayfs mount options
> > using libmount.  libmount is part of util-linux, so it should be fairly
> 
> We try to avoid external libraries to help testing kernel on some minimal
> embedded devices. @Cyril: is it ok to drag libmount-devel?

For the base LTP library? I would say no.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz