[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS test on FreeBSD

[Justin Clift]

On 12/08/2013, at 5:40 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 12:19 PM, Mike Ma wrote:
>> Hi Kaleb,
>> 
>> I've recently managed to mount and use a gluster volume on FreeBSD, with
>> the latest FreeBSD head.
>> So maybe the next step is to test it with some test suites?
>> Can I ask what benchmarks you normally use?
>> What tests should I pass?
> 
> In the source tree there is a test subdir containing both smoke and regression tests. Ideally these would all pass; run them with the perl-Test-Harness package.
> 
> Beyond that you can also run a couple iozone tests on a client where the volume is mounted.

There's the start of a write up for how to use the Gluster Test Framework here:

  http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Using_the_Gluster_Test_Framework

(note, you're completely encouraged to add a new FreeBSD section to that :>)

I suspect a lot of the tests will "just work" with FreeBSD, as the existing test suite
is written in bash (.sh).  There are a few tests that could be Linux only, which might
need some work in the tests to skip over on non-Linux platforms.  (not hard to do)

As a side thing, I've been looking into using Autotest with GlusterFS as a potential
different approach.  Autotest turns out to be a complete pig to use for multi-node stuff
though, has opaque/unreadable source, and isn't cross platform.  So, not suitable. :(

STAF (staf.sourceforge.net) looks like it would be better, but I haven't put time into
real investigation yet.

Hopefully some of this info is useful. :)

+ Justin

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