Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Linux POSIX file system test suite

[Marc Andre Tanner <mat@brain-dump.org>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:29:47AM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hi,

Thanks for the release. 

I have a general question regarding FUSE. Why do all the tests pass on a
regular ext3 file system while there are quite a lot of errors (~80%
success) when run on top of the fuse example file system as found in the
fuse tarball? I thought the fuse filesystem just passes every access to 
the underlying file system. So what's causing the failures? Or am i doing
something wrong?

Thanks,
Marc

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