Re: FYI: v9fs/test rework

Awesome, thanks for the pointers, I'll have a look.

On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 9:11 AM Pierre Barre <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Eric,
>
> Glad to hear you're picking v9fs back up. In case any of it is useful as a reference point, I've been maintaining a fair amount of 9p CI for ZeroFS, exercising the Linux v9fs client against the ZeroFS server across a few transports and mount option combinations:
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> https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS/tree/main/.github/workflows
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> Not a generic test harness like what you're building, but there may be some scenarios or pitfalls in there worth borrowing, including xfstests:
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> https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS/blob/main/.github/workflows/xfstests-9p.yml
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> Happy to answer questions if anything looks relevant.
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> Best,
> Pierre
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> On Sat, Apr 25, 2026, at 22:58, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> > I've started picking up v9fs again for something work related, but set
> > out to first fix my test infrastructure.  Being lazy, I'm having
> > Cursor do the test infrastructure rework for me -- it is still a work
> > in progress, but I think it's already handling the old tests and
> > starting to add new ones.  I need to suck in more of the diod testing
> > framework as well so that I have full coverage there, and then I'm
> > going to look at adding hugelgupf/9p and go9p.
> >
> > As part of this, I should be able to fix it for nightly builds and/or
> > at least tracking upstream with regression tests across the multiple
> > servers.
> >
> > Currently running in the main branch of github.com/v9fs/test
> >
> > Fortunately for everyone I'm not tilting at the caching stuff quite
> > yet, I'm more interested in the synthetic file system angle.  So don't
> > worry about me breaking everything (yet).
> >
> >        -eric