On 2025-08-20, Askar Safin <safinaskar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ---- On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:16:04 +0400 Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote --- > > They are not tested by fstests AFAICS, but that's more of a flaw in > > fstests (automount requires you to have a running autofs daemon, which > > probably makes testing it in fstests or selftests impractical) not the > > feature itself. > > I suggest testing automounts in fstests/selftests using "tracing" automount. > This is what I do in my reproducers. > > > The automount behaviour of tracefs is different to the general automount > > mechanism which is managed by userspace with the autofs daemon. > > Yes. But I still was able to write reproducers using "tracing", so this > automount point is totally okay for tests. (At least for some tests, > such as RESOLVE_NO_XDEV.) Sure, but I don't think people use allyesconfig when running selftests. I wonder if the automated test runners even enable deprecated features like that. In any case, you can definitely write some tests for it. :D -- Aleksa Sarai Senior Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH https://www.cyphar.com/
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