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Jorgen Lundman edited this page Oct 12, 2025 · 1 revision

zfs-tester

Running zfstests on Windows is a bit of a bastard child, as we do not have sudo (yet?).

  • Configure 3 disks with your VM, they should be about 15G ~ 20G each.

  • Install cygwin (With ksh)

  • Run cygwin terminal As Administrator

  • Run or set these in your .bash_profile

 export SHELLOPTS
 set -o igncr

If you have the Installed version on your Windows, ie, with "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenZFS on Windows" you will have to remove that path from the $PATH envvar, as the zfstest environment currently does not handle spaces.

 $ cd ZFSin/ZFSin/zfs/tests
 $ ./autogen.sh
 $ ./configure

You may want to check that Makefile disks points to three available disks.

 $ grep DISKS Makefile
         DISKS="$(shell for i in {1..3}; do \
         DISKS="PHYSICALDRIVE1 PHYSICALDRIVE2 PHYSICALDRIVE3" \
         DISKS="/var/tmp/zfs_test-1 /var/tmp/zfs_test-2 /var/tmp/zfs_test-3" \

On my system PHYSICALDRIVE1, PHYSICALDRIVE2 and PHYSICALDRIVE3 are empty and available for testing. If your system is different, you may need to edit Makefile. (Or edit Makefile.am, and re-run configure).

If you want to make a reduced test run, you can here edit:

 $ vi zfs-tests/runfiles/windows.run

(Or again, edit zfs-tests/runfiles/windows.run.in and rerun ./configure)

To run the tester:
 $ make test_hw

Complete output is placed in /var/tmp/test_results/$DATE/log

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