_______________________ BUILDING THE FSQA SUITE _______________________ - cd into the xfstests directory - install prerequisite packages For example, for Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install xfslibs-dev uuid-dev libtool-bin \ e2fsprogs automake gcc libuuid1 quota attr libattr1-dev make \ libacl1-dev libaio-dev xfsprogs libgdbm-dev gawk fio dbench \ uuid-runtime python sqlite3 For Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS: yum install acl attr automake bc dbench dump e2fsprogs fio \ gawk gcc indent libtool lvm2 make psmisc quota sed \ xfsdump xfsprogs \ libacl-devel libattr-devel libaio-devel libuuid-devel \ xfsprogs-devel btrfs-progs-devel python sqlite (Older distributions may require xfsprogs-qa-devel as well.) (Note that for RHEL and CentOS, you may need the EPEL repo.) - run make - run make install - create fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd fsgqa") - create fsgqa group ("sudo groupadd fsgqa") - create 123456-fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd 123456-fsgqa") ______________________ USING THE FSQA SUITE ______________________ Preparing system for tests: - compile XFS into your kernel or load XFS modules - install administrative tools specific to the filesystem you wish to test - If you wish to run the udf components of the suite install mkudffs. Also download and build the Philips UDF Verification Software from http://www.extra.research.philips.com/udf/, then copy the udf_test binary to xfstests/src/. If you wish to disable UDF verification test set the environment variable DISABLE_UDF_TEST to 1. - create one or two partitions to use for testing - one TEST partition - format as XFS, mount & optionally populate with NON-IMPORTANT stuff - one SCRATCH partition (optional) - leave empty and expect this partition to be clobbered by some tests. If this is not provided, many tests will not be run. (SCRATCH and TEST must be two DIFFERENT partitions) OR - for btrfs only: some btrfs test cases will need 3 or more independent SCRATCH disks which should be set using SCRATCH_DEV_POOL (for eg: SCRATCH_DEV_POOL="/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc") with which SCRATCH_DEV should be unused by the tester, and for the legacy support SCRATCH_DEV will be set to the first disk of the SCRATCH_DEV_POOL by xfstests script. - setup your environment Quick start: - copy local.config.example to local.config and edit as needed Or: - setenv TEST_DEV "device containing TEST PARTITION" - setenv TEST_DIR "mount point of TEST PARTITION" - optionally: - setenv SCRATCH_DEV "device containing SCRATCH PARTITION" OR (btrfs only) setenv SCRATCH_DEV_POOL "to 3 or more SCRATCH disks for testing btrfs raid concepts" - setenv SCRATCH_MNT "mount point for SCRATCH PARTITION" - setenv TAPE_DEV "tape device for testing xfsdump" - setenv RMT_TAPE_DEV "remote tape device for testing xfsdump" - setenv RMT_IRIXTAPE_DEV "remote IRIX tape device for testing xfsdump" - setenv SCRATCH_LOGDEV "device for scratch-fs external log" - setenv SCRATCH_RTDEV "device for scratch-fs realtime data" - setenv TEST_LOGDEV "device for test-fs external log" - setenv TEST_RTDEV "device for test-fs realtime data" - if TEST_LOGDEV and/or TEST_RTDEV, these will always be used. - if SCRATCH_LOGDEV and/or SCRATCH_RTDEV, the USE_EXTERNAL environment variable set to "yes" will enable their use. - setenv DIFF_LENGTH "number of diff lines to print from a failed test", by default 10, set to 0 to print the full diff - setenv FSTYP "the filesystem you want to test", the filesystem type is devised from the TEST_DEV device, but you may want to override it; if unset, the default is 'xfs' - setenv FSSTRESS_AVOID and/or FSX_AVOID, which contain options added to the end of fsstresss and fsx invocations, respectively, in case you wish to exclude certain operational modes from these tests. - set TEST_XFS_REPAIR_REBUILD=1 to have _check_xfs_filesystem run xfs_repair -n to check the filesystem; xfs_repair to rebuild metadata indexes; and xfs_repair -n (a third time) to check the results of the rebuilding. - xfs_scrub, if present, will always check the test and scratch filesystems if they are still online at the end of the test. It is no longer necessary to set TEST_XFS_SCRUB. - setenv LOGWRITES_DEV to a block device to use for power fail testing. - setenv PERF_CONFIGNAME to a arbitrary string to be used for identifying the test setup for running perf tests. This should be different for each type of performance test you wish to run so that relevant results are compared. For example 'spinningrust' for configurations that use spinning disks and 'nvme' for tests using nvme drives. - or add a case to the switch in common/config assigning these variables based on the hostname of your test machine - or add these variables to a file called local.config and keep that file in your workarea. - if testing xfsdump, make sure the tape devices have a tape which can be overwritten. - make sure $TEST_DEV is a mounted XFS partition - make sure that $SCRATCH_DEV or $SCRATCH_DEV_POOL contains nothing useful Running tests: - cd xfstests - By default the tests suite will run xfs tests: - ./check '*/001' '*/002' '*/003' - ./check '*/06?' - Groups of tests maybe ran by: ./check -g [group(s)] See the 'group' file for details on groups - To randomize test order: ./check -r [test(s)] - You can explicitly specify NFS/CIFS/OVERLAY, otherwise the filesystem type will be autodetected from $TEST_DEV: - for running nfs tests: ./check -nfs [test(s)] - for running cifs/smb3 tests: ./check -cifs [test(s)] - for overlay tests: ./check -overlay [test(s)] The TEST and SCRATCH partitions should be pre-formatted with another base fs, where the overlay dirs will be created The check script tests the return value of each script, and compares the output against the expected output. If the output is not as expected, a diff will be output and an .out.bad file will be produced for the failing test. Unexpected console messages, crashes and hangs may be considered to be failures but are not necessarily detected by the QA system. __________________________ ADDING TO THE FSQA SUITE __________________________ Creating new tests scripts: Use the "new" script. Test script environment: When developing a new test script keep the following things in mind. All of the environment variables and shell procedures are available to the script once the "common/rc" file has been sourced. 1. The tests are run from an arbitrary directory. If you want to do operations on an XFS filesystem (good idea, eh?), then do one of the following: (a) Create directories and files at will in the directory $TEST_DIR ... this is within an XFS filesystem and world writeable. You should cleanup when your test is done, e.g. use a _cleanup shell procedure in the trap ... see 001 for an example. If you need to know, the $TEST_DIR directory is within the filesystem on the block device $TEST_DEV. (b) mkfs a new XFS filesystem on $SCRATCH_DEV, and mount this on $SCRATCH_MNT. Call the the _require_scratch function on startup if you require use of the scratch partition. _require_scratch does some checks on $SCRATCH_DEV & $SCRATCH_MNT and makes sure they're unmounted. You should cleanup when your test is done, and in particular unmount $SCRATCH_MNT. Tests can make use of $SCRATCH_LOGDEV and $SCRATCH_RTDEV for testing external log and realtime volumes - however, these tests need to simply "pass" (e.g. cat $seq.out; exit - or default to an internal log) in the common case where these variables are not set. 2. You can safely create temporary files that are not part of the filesystem tests (e.g. to catch output, prepare lists of things to do, etc.) in files named $tmp.. The standard test script framework created by "new" will initialize $tmp and cleanup on exit. 3. By default, tests are run as the same uid as the person executing the control script "check" that runs the test scripts. 4. Some other useful shell procedures: _get_fqdn - echo the host's fully qualified domain name _get_pids_by_name - one argument is a process name, and return all of the matching pids on standard output _within_tolerance - fancy numerical "close enough is good enough" filter for deterministic output ... see comments in common/filter for an explanation _filter_date - turn ctime(3) format dates into the string DATE for deterministic output _cat_passwd, - dump the content of the password _cat_group or group file (both the local file and the content of the NIS database if it is likely to be present) 5. General recommendations, usage conventions, etc.: - When the content of the password or group file is required, get it using the _cat_passwd and _cat_group functions, to ensure NIS information is included if NIS is active. - When calling getfacl in a test, pass the "-n" argument so that numeric rather than symbolic identifiers are used in the output. - When creating a new test, it is possible to enter a custom name for the file. Filenames are in form NNN-custom-name, where NNN is automatically added by the ./new script as an unique ID, and "custom-name" is the optional string entered into a prompt in the ./new script. It can contain only alphanumeric characters and dash. Note the "NNN-" part is added automatically. Verified output: Each test script has a name, e.g. 007, and an associated verified output, e.g. 007.out. It is important that the verified output is deterministic, and part of the job of the test script is to filter the output to make this so. Examples of the sort of things that need filtering: - dates - pids - hostnames - filesystem names - timezones - variable directory contents - imprecise numbers, especially sizes and times Pass/failure: The script "check" may be used to run one or more tests. Test number $seq is deemed to "pass" when: (a) no "core" file is created, (b) the file $seq.notrun is not created, (c) the exit status is 0, and (d) the output matches the verified output. In the "not run" case (b), the $seq.notrun file should contain a short one-line summary of why the test was not run. The standard output is not checked, so this can be used for a more verbose explanation and to provide feedback when the QA test is run interactively. To force a non-zero exit status use: status=1 exit Note that: exit 1 won't have the desired effect because of the way the exit trap works. The recent pass/fail history is maintained in the file "check.log". The elapsed time for the most recent pass for each test is kept in "check.time". The compare-failures script in tools/ may be used to compare failures across multiple runs, given files containing stdout from those runs. __________________ SUBMITTING PATCHES __________________ Send patches to the fstests mailing list at fstests@vger.kernel.org.