[LU-4884] Don't use /home for shared testing space

Blocker — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:24:52 +0000

If I'm understanding ~~LU-3791~~ correctly, somewhere in /home (/home/autotest perhaps?) is being used as shared scratch space on test nodes for Lustre tests. Additionally these tests need to be able to write to this shared scratch space as root.

/home is an inappropriate space for this, particularly /home/autotest since requiring that to be writeable by root on all test nodes means that one badly written test (or developer mis-action while logged onto a reserved node) could wipe out Autotest.

The solution here is to use a shared space specifically provided by the infrastructure for this purpose.

Providing that space is TEI-1926. This ticket is about making whatever changes are necessary to the Lustre test framework (configuration) to use that space. Or at least understanding how the location is specified if it's a TEI task to make that change.

Whamcloud Community JIRA

[LU-4884] Don't use /home for shared testing space