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USING THE XFS QA SUITE
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Preparing system for tests:

    - compile XFS into your kernel or load XFS modules
    - install user tools including mkfs.xfs, xfs_db & xfs_bmap
    
    - create two partitions to use for testing
        - one TEST partition
            - format as XFS, mount & optionally populate with 
              NON-IMPORTANT stuff
        - one SCRATCH partition
            - leave empty and expect this partition to be clobbered
              by some tests.
              
        (these must be two DIFFERENT partitions)
              
    - setup your environment
        - setenv TEST_DEV "device containing TEST PARTITION"
        - setenv TEST_DIR "mount point of TEST PARTITION"   
        - setenv SCRATCH_DEV "device containing SCRATCH PARTITION"
        - 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"
	- optionally:
	     - setenv SCRATCH_LOGDEV "device for external log"
             - setenv SCRATCH_RTDEV "device for realtime data"
        - or add a case to the switch in common.config assigning
          these variables based on the hostname of your test
          machine

    - 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 contains nothing useful
    
Running tests:

    - cd cmd/xfs/stress
    - ./check 001 002 003 ... 
    
    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 necesarily detected by the QA system.

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ADDING TO THE XFS QA SUITE
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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
	    direcotry 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.<anything>.  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.

	If you need to be root, add a call to the shell procedure
	_need_to_be_root ... this will do nothing or exit with an
	error message depending on your current uid.

     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

Verified output:

    Each test script has a numerical 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

    Use the "remake" script to recreate the verified output for one
    or more tests.

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 becuase 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".