From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F4EC433E2 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81FE322B51 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729430AbgGTSRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:17:00 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50350 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728703AbgGTSRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:17:00 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0122AACFE; Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:16:58 +0200 From: Petr Vorel To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Trond Myklebust , "ltp@lists.linux.it" , "bfields@fieldses.org" , "chuck.lever@oracle.com" , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" , "alexey.kodanev@oracle.com" , "yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com" , Cyril Hrubis , Yong Sun Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] Remove nfsv4 Message-ID: <20200720181658.GA32123@dell5510> Reply-To: Petr Vorel References: <20200720091449.19813-1-pvorel@suse.cz> <20200720151742.GA16973@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200720151742.GA16973@infradead.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:32:09PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 11:14 +0200, Petr Vorel wrote: > > > Reasons to drop: > > > * outdated tests (from 2005) > > > * not used (NFS kernel maintainers use pynfs [1]) > > > * written in Python (we support C and shell, see [2]) > > > [1] http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=bfields/pynfs.git;a=summary > > > [2] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/547 > > Unlike pynfs, these tests run on a real NFS client, and were designed > > to test client implementations, as well as the servers. > > So if they get dropped from ltp, then we will have to figure out some > > other way of continuing to maintain them. > NFS tests using the kernel sound like a prime candidate for xfstests. In the past Yong Sun moved some ext4 related tests from LTP to xfstests. LTP has various NFS related tests. IMHO more important than where these tests should be is if anybody has a deeper look into them an cleanup them / rewrite them from scratch. Kind regards, Petr