A variety of tests can be run or environments set up. 1. runregression-net Usage on server: llsetup.sh marcus-echo-server.cfg with marcus-echo-server.cfg: NETWORK=elan LOCALHOST=4 SERVER=4 SETUP_OST=y OSTTYPE=obdecho Usage on client: runregression-net marcus-echo-client.cfg with marcus-echo-client.cfg: NETWORK=elan LOCALHOST=5 SERVER=4 SETUP_OSC=y If things are alright it goes through all the tests single threaded, multithreaded, getattr and brw (both read and write). 2. How to build .cfg scripts: The various .cfg scripts in the tests/ directory can be used as building blocks for full configurations. For example, the above configurations are: cat elan-server.cfg obdecho.cfg > marcus-echo-server.cfg cat elan-client.cfg client-echo.cfg > marcus-echo-client.cfg You _could_ specify multiple .cfg files as the parameters to llsetup if you are doing something uncommon, but it is probably just easer to build a whole config file in one shot, edit it as needed, and use that file instead. For a loopback setup with a mounted filesystem, you could do something like: cat net-local.cfg mds.cfg obdext2.cfg client-mount.cfg > uml.cfg The order of the specified .cfg files does not matter. Since the .cfg script is a shell script, you can add conditional setup in case you want to avoid changing your configuration if you need to run on a different host. You could, for example, have marcus-echo-server.cfg: NETWORK=elan HOST=`hostname | sed "s/\..*//"` case $HOST in dev*) LOCALHOST=`echo $HOST | sed "s/dev//"` SERVER=$LOCALHOST NETWORK=elan ;; *) LOCALHOST=$HOST SERVER=$LOCALHOST NETWORK=tcp ;; esac SETUP_OST=y OSTTYPE=obdecho You would, of course, need a marcus-echo-client.cfg to match. 3. runtests The runtests script does a series of simple file-based tests using a filesystem. You need to use a configuration which includes a real OST and MDS setup, and an OSC mount. For example, a configuration marcus-obd-server.cfg: SETUP_MDS=y NETWORK=elan LOCALHOST=4 SERVER=4 MDSFS=ext3 MDSDEV=/tmp/mds MDSSIZE=10000 OSTDEV=/tmp/ost OSTSIZE=10000 OSTFS=ext2 OSTTYPE=obdext2 SETUP_OST=y SETUP_LDLM=y As with the echo test, you run "sh llsetup.sh marcus-obd-server.cfg" on the server to configure it. For marcus-obd-client.cfg you only need to include the client data: NETWORK=elan LOCALHOST=5 SERVER=4 SETUP_OSC=y OSCMT=/mnt/lustre SETUP_MOUNT=y SETUP_LDLM=y You run the test via "sh runtests marcus-obd-client.cfg".