[Gluster-devel] Translator test harness

[Jeff Darcy]

On 11/18/2013 11:32 PM, Anand Avati wrote:
> It might be interesting to build a test harness using libgfapi
> (specially the handle based APIs) to load a graph with the xlator to be
> test (on top of posix) and using gfapi calls to bombard fops and
> notifications and callbacks from multiple threads spawned by the testing
> app/framework.
>
> Along with a fault injection, we also need a "pedantic verifier"
> translator (loaded both on top and blow the testing xlator) which
> inspects all params of all calls and callbacks coming out of the xlator
> to "conform" by the rules (e.g lookup_cbk op_ret is either -1 or 0 ONLY,
> op_errno is one of the known standard values ONLY, struct stat does not
> have mtime/ctime/atime from too far ahead into the future, mkdir_cbk's
> struct stat has ia_type to be IA_IFDIR ONLY etc.)

Sounds like we have another volunteer.  ;)