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+// -*- mode:Java; tab-width:2; c-basic-offset:2; indent-tabs-mode:t -*- 
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * Unit tests for the CephFileSystem API implementation.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.fs.ceph;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemContractBaseTest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+
+public class TestCeph extends FileSystemContractBaseTest {
+
+	@Override
+    protected void setUp() throws IOException {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    CephFileSystem cephfs = new CephFileSystem();
+    CephFaker cephfaker = new CephFaker(conf, cephfs.LOG);
+    cephfs.initialize(URI.create("ceph://null"), conf, cephfaker);
+		fs = cephfs;
+	}
+}