diff --git a/src/test/RUNTESTS b/src/test/RUNTESTS
index 0aced0132ca..9ed0d9d6183 100755
--- a/src/test/RUNTESTS
+++ b/src/test/RUNTESTS
@@ -439,6 +439,18 @@ verbose_tests=
 [ -n "$KEEP_GOING" ] && keep_going=$KEEP_GOING
 [ -n "$VERBOSE_TESTS" ] && verbose_tests="$VERBOSE_TESTS"
 
+
+PMEMDETECT="tools/pmemdetect/pmemdetect.static-nondebug"
+
+if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "1" ]; then
+	if $PMEMDETECT -s $PMEM_FS_DIR; then
+		echo "error: PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM variable is set but PMEM_FS_DIR [" $PMEM_FS_DIR  "] supports MAP_SYNC"
+		echo "Setting this flag prevents from testing an integration between pmem_map_file and pmem_is_pmem."
+		echo "If you want to ignore this error, please set PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM=2."
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+
 #
 # command-line argument processing...
 #
diff --git a/src/test/testconfig.sh.example b/src/test/testconfig.sh.example
index d44968883ba..439804579a8 100644
--- a/src/test/testconfig.sh.example
+++ b/src/test/testconfig.sh.example
@@ -38,9 +38,15 @@
 NON_PMEM_FS_DIR=/tmp
 
 #
-# If you don't have real PMEM or PMEM emulation set up, but still want to test
-# PMEM codepaths uncomment this line. It will set PMEM_IS_PMEM_FORCE to 1 for
-# tests that require pmem.
+# If you don't have real PMEM or PMEM emulation set up and/or the filesystem
+# does not support MAP_SYNC flag, but still want to test PMEM codepaths
+# uncomment this line. It will set PMEM_IS_PMEM_FORCE to 1 for tests that
+# require pmem.
+#
+# Setting this flag to 1, if the PMEM_FS_DIR filesystem supports MAP_SYNC will
+# cause an error. This flag cannot be used with filesystems which support
+# MAP_SYNC because it would prevent from testing the target PMEM codepaths.
+# If you want to ignore this error set the value to 2.
 #
 #PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM=1
 
diff --git a/src/test/unittest/unittest.sh b/src/test/unittest/unittest.sh
index 8e5804451b2..f870d22821d 100644
--- a/src/test/unittest/unittest.sh
+++ b/src/test/unittest/unittest.sh
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ else
 	in
 	pmem)
 		DIR=$PMEM_FS_DIR/$DIRSUFFIX/$curtestdir$UNITTEST_NUM$SUFFIX
-		if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "1" ]; then
+		if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "1" ] || [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "2" ]; then
 			export PMEM_IS_PMEM_FORCE=1
 		fi
 		;;
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ else
 		if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR" != "" ]; then
 			DIR=$PMEM_FS_DIR/$DIRSUFFIX/$curtestdir$UNITTEST_NUM$SUFFIX
 			REAL_FS=pmem
-			if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "1" ]; then
+			if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "1" ] || [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "2" ]; then
 				export PMEM_IS_PMEM_FORCE=1
 			fi
 		elif [ "$NON_PMEM_FS_DIR" != "" ]; then
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 if [ -d "$PMEM_FS_DIR" ]; then
-	if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "1" ]; then
+	if [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "1" ] || [ "$PMEM_FS_DIR_FORCE_PMEM" = "2" ]; then
 		PMEM_IS_PMEM=0
 	else
 		$PMEMDETECT "$PMEM_FS_DIR" && true