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2 BUILDING THE FSQA SUITE
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5 - cd into the xfstests directory
6 - install prerequisite packages
7 For example, for Ubuntu:
8 sudo apt-get install xfslibs-dev uuid-dev libtool-bin \
9 e2fsprogs automake gcc libuuid1 quota attr libattr1-dev make \
10 libacl1-dev libaio-dev xfsprogs libgdbm-dev gawk fio dbench \
11 uuid-runtime python sqlite3
12 For Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS:
13 yum install acl attr automake bc dbench dump e2fsprogs fio \
14 gawk gcc indent libtool lvm2 make psmisc quota sed \
16 libacl-devel libattr-devel libaio-devel libuuid-devel \
17 xfsprogs-devel btrfs-progs-devel python sqlite
18 (Older distributions may require xfsprogs-qa-devel as well.)
19 (Note that for RHEL and CentOS, you may need the EPEL repo.)
22 - create fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd fsgqa")
23 - create fsgqa group ("sudo groupadd fsgqa")
24 - create 123456-fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd 123456-fsgqa")
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30 Preparing system for tests:
32 - compile XFS into your kernel or load XFS modules
33 - install administrative tools specific to the filesystem you wish to test
34 - If you wish to run the udf components of the suite install
35 mkudffs. Also download and build the Philips UDF Verification Software
36 from http://www.extra.research.philips.com/udf/, then copy the udf_test
37 binary to xfstests/src/. If you wish to disable UDF verification test
38 set the environment variable DISABLE_UDF_TEST to 1.
40 - create one or two partitions to use for testing
42 - format as XFS, mount & optionally populate with
44 - one SCRATCH partition (optional)
45 - leave empty and expect this partition to be clobbered
46 by some tests. If this is not provided, many tests will
48 (SCRATCH and TEST must be two DIFFERENT partitions)
50 - for btrfs only: some btrfs test cases will need 3 or more independent
51 SCRATCH disks which should be set using SCRATCH_DEV_POOL (for eg:
52 SCRATCH_DEV_POOL="/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc") with which
53 SCRATCH_DEV should be unused by the tester, and for the legacy
54 support SCRATCH_DEV will be set to the first disk of the
55 SCRATCH_DEV_POOL by xfstests script.
57 - setup your environment
59 - copy local.config.example to local.config and edit as needed
61 - setenv TEST_DEV "device containing TEST PARTITION"
62 - setenv TEST_DIR "mount point of TEST PARTITION"
64 - setenv SCRATCH_DEV "device containing SCRATCH PARTITION" OR
65 (btrfs only) setenv SCRATCH_DEV_POOL "to 3 or more SCRATCH disks for
66 testing btrfs raid concepts"
67 - setenv SCRATCH_MNT "mount point for SCRATCH PARTITION"
68 - setenv TAPE_DEV "tape device for testing xfsdump"
69 - setenv RMT_TAPE_DEV "remote tape device for testing xfsdump"
70 - setenv RMT_IRIXTAPE_DEV "remote IRIX tape device for testing xfsdump"
71 - setenv SCRATCH_LOGDEV "device for scratch-fs external log"
72 - setenv SCRATCH_RTDEV "device for scratch-fs realtime data"
73 - setenv TEST_LOGDEV "device for test-fs external log"
74 - setenv TEST_RTDEV "device for test-fs realtime data"
75 - if TEST_LOGDEV and/or TEST_RTDEV, these will always be used.
76 - if SCRATCH_LOGDEV and/or SCRATCH_RTDEV, the USE_EXTERNAL
77 environment variable set to "yes" will enable their use.
78 - setenv DIFF_LENGTH "number of diff lines to print from a failed test",
79 by default 10, set to 0 to print the full diff
80 - setenv FSTYP "the filesystem you want to test", the filesystem
81 type is devised from the TEST_DEV device, but you may want to
82 override it; if unset, the default is 'xfs'
83 - setenv FSSTRESS_AVOID and/or FSX_AVOID, which contain options
84 added to the end of fsstresss and fsx invocations, respectively,
85 in case you wish to exclude certain operational modes from these
87 - set TEST_XFS_REPAIR_REBUILD=1 to have _check_xfs_filesystem
88 run xfs_repair -n to check the filesystem; xfs_repair to rebuild
89 metadata indexes; and xfs_repair -n (a third time) to check the
90 results of the rebuilding.
91 - xfs_scrub, if present, will always check the test and scratch
92 filesystems if they are still online at the end of the test.
93 It is no longer necessary to set TEST_XFS_SCRUB.
94 - setenv LOGWRITES_DEV to a block device to use for power fail
96 - setenv PERF_CONFIGNAME to a arbitrary string to be used for
97 identifying the test setup for running perf tests. This should
98 be different for each type of performance test you wish to run so
99 that relevant results are compared. For example 'spinningrust'
100 for configurations that use spinning disks and 'nvme' for tests
103 - or add a case to the switch in common/config assigning
104 these variables based on the hostname of your test
106 - or add these variables to a file called local.config and keep that
107 file in your workarea.
109 - if testing xfsdump, make sure the tape devices have a
110 tape which can be overwritten.
112 - make sure $TEST_DEV is a mounted XFS partition
113 - make sure that $SCRATCH_DEV or $SCRATCH_DEV_POOL contains nothing useful
118 - By default the tests suite will run all the tests in the auto group. These
119 are the tests that are expected to function correctly as regression tests,
120 and it excludes tests that exercise conditions known to cause machine
121 failures (i.e. the "dangerous" tests).
122 - ./check '*/001' '*/002' '*/003'
124 - Groups of tests maybe ran by: ./check -g [group(s)]
125 See the 'group' file for details on groups
126 - If you want to run all tests regardless of what group they are in
127 (including dangerous tests), use the "all" group: ./check -g all
128 - To randomize test order: ./check -r [test(s)]
129 - You can explicitly specify NFS/CIFS/OVERLAY, otherwise
130 the filesystem type will be autodetected from $TEST_DEV:
131 - for running nfs tests: ./check -nfs [test(s)]
132 - for running cifs/smb3 tests: ./check -cifs [test(s)]
133 - for overlay tests: ./check -overlay [test(s)]
134 The TEST and SCRATCH partitions should be pre-formatted
135 with another base fs, where the overlay dirs will be created
138 The check script tests the return value of each script, and
139 compares the output against the expected output. If the output
140 is not as expected, a diff will be output and an .out.bad file
141 will be produced for the failing test.
143 Unexpected console messages, crashes and hangs may be considered
144 to be failures but are not necessarily detected by the QA system.
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147 ADDING TO THE FSQA SUITE
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151 Creating new tests scripts:
153 Use the "new" script.
155 Test script environment:
157 When developing a new test script keep the following things in
158 mind. All of the environment variables and shell procedures are
159 available to the script once the "common/rc" file has been
162 1. The tests are run from an arbitrary directory. If you want to
163 do operations on an XFS filesystem (good idea, eh?), then do
164 one of the following:
166 (a) Create directories and files at will in the directory
167 $TEST_DIR ... this is within an XFS filesystem and world
168 writeable. You should cleanup when your test is done,
169 e.g. use a _cleanup shell procedure in the trap ... see
170 001 for an example. If you need to know, the $TEST_DIR
171 directory is within the filesystem on the block device
174 (b) mkfs a new XFS filesystem on $SCRATCH_DEV, and mount this
175 on $SCRATCH_MNT. Call the the _require_scratch function
176 on startup if you require use of the scratch partition.
177 _require_scratch does some checks on $SCRATCH_DEV &
178 $SCRATCH_MNT and makes sure they're unmounted. You should
179 cleanup when your test is done, and in particular unmount
181 Tests can make use of $SCRATCH_LOGDEV and $SCRATCH_RTDEV
182 for testing external log and realtime volumes - however,
183 these tests need to simply "pass" (e.g. cat $seq.out; exit
184 - or default to an internal log) in the common case where
185 these variables are not set.
187 2. You can safely create temporary files that are not part of the
188 filesystem tests (e.g. to catch output, prepare lists of things
189 to do, etc.) in files named $tmp.<anything>. The standard test
190 script framework created by "new" will initialize $tmp and
193 3. By default, tests are run as the same uid as the person
194 executing the control script "check" that runs the test scripts.
196 4. Some other useful shell procedures:
198 _get_fqdn - echo the host's fully qualified
201 _get_pids_by_name - one argument is a process name, and
202 return all of the matching pids on
205 _within_tolerance - fancy numerical "close enough is good
206 enough" filter for deterministic
207 output ... see comments in
208 common/filter for an explanation
210 _filter_date - turn ctime(3) format dates into the
211 string DATE for deterministic
214 _cat_passwd, - dump the content of the password
215 _cat_group or group file (both the local file
216 and the content of the NIS database
217 if it is likely to be present)
219 5. General recommendations, usage conventions, etc.:
220 - When the content of the password or group file is
221 required, get it using the _cat_passwd and _cat_group
222 functions, to ensure NIS information is included if NIS
224 - When calling getfacl in a test, pass the "-n" argument so
225 that numeric rather than symbolic identifiers are used in
227 - When creating a new test, it is possible to enter a custom name
228 for the file. Filenames are in form NNN-custom-name, where NNN
229 is automatically added by the ./new script as an unique ID,
230 and "custom-name" is the optional string entered into a prompt
231 in the ./new script. It can contain only alphanumeric characters
232 and dash. Note the "NNN-" part is added automatically.
236 Each test script has a name, e.g. 007, and an associated
237 verified output, e.g. 007.out.
239 It is important that the verified output is deterministic, and
240 part of the job of the test script is to filter the output to
241 make this so. Examples of the sort of things that need filtering:
248 - variable directory contents
249 - imprecise numbers, especially sizes and times
253 The script "check" may be used to run one or more tests.
255 Test number $seq is deemed to "pass" when:
256 (a) no "core" file is created,
257 (b) the file $seq.notrun is not created,
258 (c) the exit status is 0, and
259 (d) the output matches the verified output.
261 In the "not run" case (b), the $seq.notrun file should contain a
262 short one-line summary of why the test was not run. The standard
263 output is not checked, so this can be used for a more verbose
264 explanation and to provide feedback when the QA test is run
268 To force a non-zero exit status use:
274 won't have the desired effect because of the way the exit trap
277 The recent pass/fail history is maintained in the file "check.log".
278 The elapsed time for the most recent pass for each test is kept
281 The compare-failures script in tools/ may be used to compare failures
282 across multiple runs, given files containing stdout from those runs.
288 Send patches to the fstests mailing list at fstests@vger.kernel.org.