There are often reports of booster not working. As a first step we try to investigate whether the syscall in an application is being redirected into booster. This is a hard task because it requires the use of a combination of tools like gdb, compilers and the right libc. This still does not help us determine whether the LD_PRELOAD mechanism works at all for booster on the user's machine.

WE need a tool that the user can execute on his machine, send us the output so we can determine which calls can be handled by booster and which ones are handled by libc. Of course, this is only the first step in debugging booster but it helps a lot in avoiding the effort needed for gdb-based debugging of booster and libglusterfsclient right away.