diff --git a/swh/loader/svn/tests/test_base.py b/swh/loader/svn/tests/test_base.py
index 6e62bb9..a29ab49 100644
--- a/swh/loader/svn/tests/test_base.py
+++ b/swh/loader/svn/tests/test_base.py
@@ -1,70 +1,73 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 import os
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 
+from nose.plugins.attrib import attr
+
 
 PATH_TO_DATA = '../../../../..'
 
 
+@attr('fs')
 class BaseTestSvnLoader(unittest.TestCase):
     """Base test loader class.
 
     In its setup, it's uncompressing a local svn mirror to /tmp.
 
     """
     def setUp(self, archive_name='pkg-gourmet.tgz', filename='pkg-gourmet'):
         self.tmp_root_path = tempfile.mkdtemp()
 
         start_path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
         svn_mirror_repo = os.path.join(start_path,
                                        PATH_TO_DATA,
                                        'swh-storage-testdata',
                                        'svn-folders',
                                        archive_name)
 
         # uncompress the sample folder
         subprocess.check_output(
             ['tar', 'xvf', svn_mirror_repo, '-C', self.tmp_root_path],
         )
 
         self.svn_mirror_url = 'file://' + self.tmp_root_path + '/' + filename
         self.destination_path = os.path.join(
             self.tmp_root_path, 'working-copy')
 
     def tearDown(self):
         shutil.rmtree(self.tmp_root_path)
 
 
 class BaseTestTreeLoader(unittest.TestCase):
     """Root class to ease walk and git hash testing without side-effecty
     problems.
 
     """
     def setUp(self):
         super().setUp()
         self.tmp_root_path = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         self.maxDiff = None
 
         start_path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
         sample_folder = os.path.join(start_path,
                                      PATH_TO_DATA,
                                      'swh-storage-testdata',
                                      'dir-folders',
                                      'sample-folder.tgz')
 
         self.root_path = os.path.join(self.tmp_root_path, 'sample-folder')
 
         # uncompress the sample folder
         subprocess.check_output(
             ['tar', 'xvf', sample_folder, '-C', self.tmp_root_path])
 
     def tearDown(self):
         if os.path.exists(self.tmp_root_path):
             shutil.rmtree(self.tmp_root_path)