test-driver: remove useless syncs

These syncs have the goal to transfer host filesystem changes to the VM,
but they have no effect because 1) syncing in the VM can't possibly pull
in host data and 2) 9p is accessing the host filesystem on the cached
layer anyways, so even syncing on the host would have no effect in the
VM.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/lib/test-driver/test-driver.py b/nixos/lib/test-driver/test-driver.py
index c27947bc610d..ff6d763989f5 100644
--- a/nixos/lib/test-driver/test-driver.py
+++ b/nixos/lib/test-driver/test-driver.py
@@ -596,11 +596,8 @@ class Machine:
                 shutil.copytree(host_src, host_intermediate)
             else:
                 shutil.copy(host_src, host_intermediate)
-            self.succeed("sync")
             self.succeed(make_command(["mkdir", "-p", vm_target.parent]))
             self.succeed(make_command(["cp", "-r", vm_intermediate, vm_target]))
-        # Make sure the cleanup is synced into VM
-        self.succeed("sync")
 
     def copy_from_vm(self, source: str, target_dir: str = "") -> None:
         """Copy a file from the VM (specified by an in-VM source path) to a path
@@ -626,8 +623,6 @@ class Machine:
                 shutil.copytree(intermediate, abs_target)
             else:
                 shutil.copy(intermediate, abs_target)
-        # Make sure the cleanup is synced into VM
-        self.succeed("sync")
 
     def dump_tty_contents(self, tty: str) -> None:
         """Debugging: Dump the contents of the TTY<n>