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Helper for setting up storage for tests
Some tests need more than a temporary directory on the local file system. One example is testing block device with 4k sector size, or testing a filesystem on top of such a block device.
You can create storage using loop devices and mounts in test fixtures, but creating devices and mounts requires root. Do you really want to run all your tests as root, when the code under test should not run as root?
The userstorage tool solves this problem by creating storage for tests before running the tests, and making the storage available to the current user. Once you created the storage, you can run the tests quickly as yourself directly from your editor.
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 2019
ending with its most recent commit about 1 year ago
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