[PATCH] xfstests: stop special casing nfs and udf

[Stanislav Kholmanskikh]

On 11/08/2013 12:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> For historical reasons beyond my knowledge xfstests tries to abuse the
> scratch device as test device for nfs and udf.  Because not all test
> have inherited the right usage of the _setup_testdir and _cleanup_testdir
> helpers this leads to lots of unessecary test failures.
>
> Remove the special casing, which gets nfs down to a minimal number of
> failures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
>
> diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> index ea3af12..c64933a 100644
> --- a/common/rc
> +++ b/common/rc
> @@ -975,11 +975,7 @@ _require_scratch()
>   {
>       case "$FSTYP" in
>   	nfs*)
> -		 echo $SCRATCH_DEV | grep -q ":" > /dev/null 2>&1
> -		 if [ -z "$SCRATCH_DEV" -o "$?" != "0" ]
> -		 then
> -		     _notrun "this test requires a valid \$SCRATCH_DEV"
> -		 fi
> +                 _notrun "requires a scratch device"
>   		 ;;
>   	*)
>   		 if [ -z "$SCRATCH_DEV" -o "`_is_block_dev $SCRATCH_DEV`" = "" ]
> @@ -1773,100 +1769,6 @@ _full_platform_details()
>        echo "$os/$platform $host $kernel"
>   }
Hi!

Sorry for my post-commit "review".

But for what purposes did you delete this scratch device handling for nfs?
Now each test case that uses _require_scratch returns [not run].

It means most of the generic/ test cases.

I think we should revert this part of code. How do you think?

Thanks.