[LU-12662] Run pjdfstest POSIX test in review and full testing

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pjdfstest is a POSIX file system test suite. We've recently added pjdfstest to the Lustre toolkit; DCO-8170. The next step is to create a new test suite or add a new test to the POSIX test suite that runs pjdfstest and reports on status of each test.

More information on the history and versions of pjdfstest:
The old POSIX test suite from the Open Group was no longer buildable on modern distros, and had to be replaced.
Tuxera ported to Linux, extended, and maintained Pawel Jakub Dawidek’s POSIX file system test suite called pjdfstest. The last stable release of pjdfstest was released on August 16, 2008; pjd-fstest-20080816.tgz. The last test release was released on January 30, 2009; pjd-fstest-20090130-RC.tgz. More information about the Tuxera releases can be found at https://www.tuxera.com/community/posix-test-suite/ .

In February 2011, Brian Behlendorf uploaded a version of pjdfstest to GitHub and fixed some tests to be compatible with ZFS; https://github.com/zfsonlinux/fstest . Development on this branch of pjdfstest has not progressed.

In February 2012, Pawel Jakub Dawidek uploaded his version of pjdfstest to GitHub and has maintained it since; https://github.com/pjd/pjdfstest . PJD’s version of pjdfstest from GitHub is the one that will be incorporated into Lustre testing.

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[LU-12662] Run pjdfstest POSIX test in review and full testing