[Libguestfs] [PATCH 5/5 v3] fuse: Add tests for guestmount.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:44:10AM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
>> +stage Checking file modes of initial content
>> +[ "$(stat -c %a empty)" = "644" ]
>> +[ "$(stat -c %a hello.txt)" = "644" ]
>> +[ "$(stat -c %a world.txt)" = "644" ]
>
> You need to explicitly set the umask to 022 at the beginning of the  
> script for this to be reliable.

libguestfs guarantees the initial umask already:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_umask
http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=daemon/guestfsd.c;h=db0bff926de99cb89d4003e6c5ed3c9a9917aa42;hb=HEAD#l168

>> +stage Checking sizes of initial content
>> +[ "$(stat -c %s empty)" -eq 0 ]
>> +[ "$(stat -c %s hello.txt)" -eq 5 ]
>> +[ "$(stat -c %s world.txt)" -eq 11 ]
>
> While you're at it, you could add tests for every other stat field.

Yup, I've checked most of them, but more would be better.

>> +# This fails because of caching.  The problem is that the linked file
>> +# ("hello.txt") is cached with a link count of 2.  unlink("link")
>> +# invalidates the cache for "link", but_not_  for "hello.txt" which
>> +# still has the now-incorrect cached value.  However there's not much
>> +# we can do about this since searching for all linked inodes of a file
>> +# is an O(n) operation.
>> +#[ "$(stat -c %h hello.txt)" -eq 1 ]
>
> Eurgh. What's the impact of not caching?

It's really really slow.

Note that the problem here is fairly minor.  You'll see a link count
of 2 instead of 1 for just a few seconds.

> Alternatively, inotify can spot an updated link count. What's the  
> potential for adding asynchronous cache invalidation from the daemon?

I don't think inotify helps here ...  The linked file could be
anywhere in the whole filesystem, so you'd have to have inotify
watches in every single directory in the filesystem.

I really don't think there's a good way to solve this ...

Rich.

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