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Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:12:55 -0400
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To:     Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] Remove nfsv4
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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 * outdated tests (from 2005)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.

Just for fun, I grepped through old mail to see if I could find any
cases of these tests being used.  I found one, in which Chuck reports an
nfslock01 failure.  Looks like it did find a real bug, which we fixed:

	https://lore.kernel.org/r/8DF85CB6-5FEB-4A25-9715-C9808F37A4B1@oracle.com
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/20160807185024.11705.10864.stgit@klimt.1015granger.net

--b.