apfstests/README.overlay

To run xfstest on overlayfs, configure the variables of TEST and SCRATCH
partitions to be used as the "base fs" and run './check -overlay'.

For example, the following config file can be used to run tests on
xfs test/scratch partitions:

 TEST_DEV=/dev/sda5
 TEST_DIR=/mnt/test
 SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/sda6
 SCRATCH_MNT=/mnt/scratch
 FSTYP=xfs

Using the same config file, but executing './check -overlay' will
use the same partitions as base fs for overlayfs directories
and set TEST_DIR/SCRATCH_MNT values to overlay mount points, i.e.:
/mnt/test/ovl-mnt and /mnt/scratch/ovl-mnt, for the context of
individual tests.

'./check -overlay' does not support mkfs and fsck on the base fs, so
the base fs should be pre-formatted before starting the -overlay run.
An easy way to accomplish this is by running './check <some test>' once,
before running './check -overlay'.

Because of the lack of mkfs support, multi-section config files are only
partly supported with './check -overlay'. Only multi-section files that
do not change FSTYP and MKFS_OPTIONS can be safely used with -overlay.

For example, the following multi-section config file can be used to
run overlay tests on the same base fs, but with different mount options:

 [xfs]
 TEST_DEV=/dev/sda5
 TEST_DIR=/mnt/test
 SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/sda6
 SCRATCH_MNT=/mnt/scratch
 FSTYP=xfs

 [xfs_pquota]
 MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o pquota"
 TEST_FS_MOUNT_OPTS="-o noatime"
 OVERLAY_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o redirect_dir=off"

In the example above, MOUNT_OPTIONS will be used to mount the base scratch fs,
TEST_FS_MOUNT_OPTS will be used to mount the base test fs and
OVERLAY_MOUNT_OPTIONS will be used to mount both test and scratch overlays.