xfstests fails on nfs4 file system

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sat Jul 30 11:33:26 CDT 2011


On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:16:04AM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> xfstests fails on nfs4 file system:
> 
> rhcl1# mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=4,minorversion=1 emc-1:/pnfs2 /mnt/emc-1
> rhcl1# cd /home/rees/xfstests
> rhcl1# setenv TEST_DEV emc-1:/pnfs2
> rhcl1# setenv TEST_DIR /mnt/emc-1/rees/xfstests
> rhcl1# ./check -nfs
> common.rc: Error: $TEST_DEV (emc-1:/pnfs2) is not a MOUNTED nfs filesystem
> /bin/df: `emc-1:/pnfs2': No such file or directory
> /bin/df: no file systems processed
> 
> Originally nfs4 was a separate file system type, and it still shows up that
> way in mtab:
> emc-1:/pnfs2/ on /mnt/emc-1 type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4,...
> 
> I fixed this by commenting out the type check at the end of common.rc.  I
> don't know enough about the innards of xfstests to know what the proper fix
> is.  Maybe a substring match, or explicit check for nfs4?

What about the following patch?  I makes sure the nfs4 output gets
normalized to nfs as early as possible.


Index: xfstests-dev/common.rc
===================================================================
--- xfstests-dev.orig/common.rc	2011-07-30 18:24:55.253997462 +0200
+++ xfstests-dev/common.rc	2011-07-30 18:26:41.216756745 +0200
@@ -555,7 +555,13 @@ _fs_type()
 	exit 1
     fi
 
-    _df_device $1 | $AWK_PROG '{ print $2 }'
+    #
+    # The Linux kernel shows NFSv4 filesystems in df output as
+    # filesystem type nfs4, although we mounted it as nfs earlier.
+    # Fix the filesystem type up here so that the callers don't
+    # have to bother with this quirk.
+    #
+    _df_device $1 | $AWK_PROG '{ print $2 }' | sed -e 's/nfs4/nfs/'
 }
 
 # return the FS mount options of a mounted device




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