Latest revision as of 12:57, 28 February 2013

[edit] NFStest

[edit] Summary

Provides a set of tools for testing either the NFS client or the NFS server, most of the functionality is focused mainly on testing the client.

[edit] Owner

• Name: Steve Dickson

• Email: steved@redhat.com

[edit] Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 19
• Last updated: 2012-11-27
• Percentage of completion: 100%

[edit] Detailed Description

NFStest provides a set of tools for testing either the NFS client or the NFS server, including the framework for developing more tests. These tools include the following:

• Process command line arguments
• Provide functionality for PASS/FAIL
• Provide test grouping functionality
• Provide multiple client support
• Logging mechanism
• Debug info control
• Mount/Unmount control
• Create files/directories
• Provide mechanism to start a packet trace
• Provide mechanism to simulate a network partition
• Support for pNFS testing
• Provide mechanism to automate packet trace inspection

[edit] Benefit to Fedora

The inclusion of nfstest benefits Fedora by providing customers with a tool to test NFS functionality and a development platform for creating new NFS tests. It is our hope this will increase adoption of NFSv4 and pNFS.

[edit] Scope

At this point, all of the development is done. The scope of change that will affect the over all distribution is very small. NFStest is a standalone package for testing NFS functionality.

[edit] How To Test

There is no special hardware or data needed to test NFStest.

[edit] User Experience

Users may use NFStest to check the functionality of their NFS environment.

[edit] Dependencies

python > 2.6

[edit] Contingency Plan

No contingency plan is necessary. All the development is done.

[edit] Documentation

• website: http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFStest
• GIT tree: http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=mora/nfstest.git;a=blob;f=README

[edit] Release Notes

• More detailed information can be found at: http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/NFStest

[edit] Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/NFStest