Re: Things to look out for while adding FUSE support to XFSTests

[Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 09:12, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 9:29 PM Bhumit Attarde <bhumitattarde1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I’m a Google Summer of Code[1] student developer at KDE working on
> > integrating XFSTests with KDE’s KIO-FUSE[2]. KIO is a KDE framework
> > that provides and implements abstractions for accessing various types
> > of (virtual) filesystems in a cross-platform way. KIO-FUSE is a
> > project that lets you mount remote locations on your machine locally
> > using FUSE. We’re anticipating that integrating XFSTESTS with KIO-FUSE
> > would help us uncover previously undetected bugs in KIO-FUSE and
> > KIO-slaves[3] (ioslaves) as well as the various protocols themselves.
> > You can read a brief summary of the project by visiting the following
> > link: Integrating XFSTests with KDE KIO-FUSE[4].
> >
> > As a part of the project, I’ll be adding FUSE support to XFSTests.
> > While a patch[5] was submitted for this, it seems to be abandoned. I’m
> > aiming to build on the mentioned patch, improve & test it after
> > rectifying the errors pointed out by the reviewer. Some main changes
> > that I will be making are --
> > I] changing $SUBTYP to $FUSE_SUBTYP
> > II] removing the added check case in `scratch_cleanup_files()`
> >
> > Is there anything I should keep in mind or need to look out for while
> > working on this?

Thanks for picking this up.

I don't have any requirements except that it should work with the
passthrough filesystem found in the libfuse3 source.

Cc'ing fuse-devel to keep the libfuse maintainer in the loop as well.

Thanks,
Miklos