Re: [PATCH xfstests v2] overlay: Enable character device to be the base fs partition

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 09:54:08AM +0800, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> There is a message in _supported_fs():
>     _notrun "not suitable for this filesystem type: $FSTYP"
> for when overlay usecases are executed on a chararcter device based base

You can do that?

What does that even look like?

--D

> fs. _overay_config_override() detects that the current base fs partition
> is not a block device, and FSTYP won't be overwritten as 'overlay' before
> executing usecases which results in all overlay usecases become 'notrun'.
> In addition, all generic usecases are based on base fs rather than overlay.
> 
> We want to rewrite FSTYP to 'overlay' before running the usecases. To do
> this, we need to add additional character device judgments for TEST_DEV
> and SCRATCH_DEV in _overay_config_override().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  common/config | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/config b/common/config
> index 4c86a49..a22acdb 100644
> --- a/common/config
> +++ b/common/config
> @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ _overlay_config_override()
>  	#    the new OVL_BASE_SCRATCH/TEST_DEV/MNT vars are set to the values
>  	#    of the configured base fs and SCRATCH/TEST_DEV vars are set to the
>  	#    overlayfs base and mount dirs inside base fs mount.
> -	[ -b "$TEST_DEV" ] || return 0
> +	[ -b "$TEST_DEV" ] || [ -c "$TEST_DEV" ] || return 0
>  
>  	# Config file may specify base fs type, but we obay -overlay flag
>  	[ "$FSTYP" == overlay ] || export OVL_BASE_FSTYP="$FSTYP"
> @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ _overlay_config_override()
>  	export TEST_DIR="$OVL_BASE_TEST_DIR/$OVL_MNT"
>  	export MOUNT_OPTIONS="$OVERLAY_MOUNT_OPTIONS"
>  
> -	[ -b "$SCRATCH_DEV" ] || return 0
> +	[ -b "$SCRATCH_DEV" ] || [ -c "$SCRATCH_DEV" ] || return 0
>  
>  	# Store original base fs vars
>  	export OVL_BASE_SCRATCH_DEV="$SCRATCH_DEV"
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>