> Hello file system developers,
>
> There are several POSIX file system test suites: closed source, commercial,
> one which needs reading 174 pages installation guide, etc. Because of these
> frustrations when Pawel Jakub Dawidek ported ZFS to FreeBSD, he also wrote
> such a test suite quickly.
>
> Last year the NTFS-3G team ported it to Linux/ext3 and Linux/NTFS-3G to
> validate Jean-Pierre Andre's full file permissions and ownership support
> for NTFS-3G. We sent our patches to Pawel for integration but this doesn't
> seem to happen him (he didn't see problems but is busy).
>
> Since this topic regularly appears on several lists, we are also often
> asked about it and NTFS-3G does need it to be maintained, hence we decided
> to release it and if nobody else would like to maintain it then we will do
> so.
>
> The test suite mostly checks POSIX compliance and works for FreeBSD,
> Solaris, and Linux with UFS, ZFS, ext3, and NTFS-3G file systems. The list
> of system calls tested is: chmod, chown, link, mkdir, mkfifo, open, rename,
> rmdir, symlink, truncate, unlink. There are currently 1950 regression
> tests.
>
> Availability:
>
>
http://ntfs3g.org/sw/qa/pjd-fstest-20080402.tgz
>
> and in the NTFS-3G CVS as pjd-fstest module:
>
>
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=181143
>
> The usage is extremely simple:
>
> # tar czf pjd-fstest-20080402.tgz
> # cd pjd-fstest-20080402
> # vi tests/conf
> Change 'fs' to file system type you want to test (UFS, ZFS, ext3, ntfs-3g).
> # make
> It will compile fstest utility which is used by regression tests.
> # cd /path/to/file/system/you/want/to/test/
> The test must be run as root user and requires a few basic Perl modules.
> # prove -r /path/to/fstest/
>
> It's also possible to run individual set of tests:
>
> # /path/to/fstest/tests/chown/00.t
>
> Or make single system call tests:
>
> # fstest mkdir foo 0750
> 0
> # fstest mkdir foo 0750
> mkdir returned -1
> EEXIST
>
> The test suite is easy to understand, modify and extend. For instance doing
> a test cases for the above examples is only
>
> expect 0 fstest mkdir foo 0750
> expect EEXIST fstest mkdir foo 0750
>
> The default file system type is ext3 and it passes all tests.
