Wip test fix 4 9419

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README

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+ceph-qa-suite
+-------------
+
+clusters/    - some predefined cluster layouts
+suites/      - sets of collections
+
+We have several collections, each a subdirectory within suites/*/.
+Each collection directory consists of a set facets.  The basic idea is
+that, for each collection, the set of tests to run consists of all
+combinations of taking one yaml fragment from each facet.
+
+For example, given the files
+
+  suite/collection/
+  suite/collection/foo/
+  suite/collection/foo/clusters/
+  suite/collection/foo/clusters/fixed-3.yaml
+  suite/collection/foo/clusters/fixed-9.yaml
+  suite/collection/foo/tasks/
+  suite/collection/foo/tasks/a
+  suite/collection/foo/tasks/b
+  suite/collection/foo/tasks/c
+  suite/collection/bar/
+  suite/collection/bar/clusters/fixed-3.yaml
+  suite/collection/bar/tasks/
+  suite/collection/bar/tasks/d
+  suite/collection/bar/tasks/e
+
+teuthology-suite would run tasks a, b, and c on both fixed-3 and
+fixed-9 clusters.  It would also run tasks d and e on the fixed-3
+cluster.
+
+Note that the 'clusters' and 'tasks' terminology is actually
+meaningless here.  All teuthology-suite does is stick the yaml
+fragments together (one from each facet) and run teuthology on the
+result (optionally combined with any additional fragments passed on
+the command line).
+
+In practice, we can keep common/shared task and cluster definitions in
+the top-level clusters/ (which are otherwise ignored), and symlink to
+them from the collections that want to use them.
+
+The teuthology code can be found in https://github.com/ceph/teuthology.git