diff --git oak-jcr/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/jcr/ReferenceBinaryIT.java oak-jcr/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/jcr/ReferenceBinaryIT.java
index 8f71b6c..ecb3c27 100644
--- oak-jcr/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/jcr/ReferenceBinaryIT.java
+++ oak-jcr/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/jcr/ReferenceBinaryIT.java
@@ -42,8 +42,13 @@ import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.fixture.NodeStoreFixture;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.blob.datastore.DataStoreBlobStore;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.blob.datastore.OakFileDataStore;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.document.MongoUtils;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.SegmentNodeStore;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.SegmentNodeStoreBuilders;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.file.FileStore;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.file.FileStoreBuilder;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.fixture.SegmentTarFixture;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.blob.BlobStore;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.blob.FileBlobStore;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state.NodeStore;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -130,13 +135,38 @@ public class ReferenceBinaryIT {
         fixture.dispose(nodeStore);
     }
 
-    @Parameterized.Parameters
+    @Parameterized.Parameters(name="{0}")
     public static Collection<Object[]> fixtures() throws Exception {
+        File file = getTestDir("tar");
+        FileStore fileStore = FileStoreBuilder.fileStoreBuilder(file)
+                .withBlobStore(createBlobStore())
+                .withMaxFileSize(256)
+                .withMemoryMapping(true)
+                .build();
+        
+        SegmentNodeStore sns = SegmentNodeStoreBuilders.builder(fileStore).build();
+        
         List<Object[]> fixtures = Lists.newArrayList();
-        SegmentTarFixture segmentTarFixture = new SegmentTarFixture();
+        SegmentTarFixture segmentTarFixture = new SegmentTarFixture(sns);
+        
         if (segmentTarFixture.isAvailable()) {
             fixtures.add(new Object[] {segmentTarFixture});
         }
+        
+        FileBlobStore fbs = new FileBlobStore(getTestDir("fbs1").getAbsolutePath());
+        fbs.setReferenceKeyPlainText("foobar");
+        FileStore fileStoreWithFBS = FileStoreBuilder.fileStoreBuilder(getTestDir("tar2"))
+                .withBlobStore(fbs)
+                .withMaxFileSize(256)
+                .withMemoryMapping(true)
+                .build();
+        
+        SegmentNodeStore snsWithFBS = SegmentNodeStoreBuilders.builder(fileStoreWithFBS).build();
+        
+        SegmentTarFixture segmentTarFixtureFBS = new SegmentTarFixture(snsWithFBS);
+        if (segmentTarFixtureFBS.isAvailable()) {
+            fixtures.add(new Object[] {segmentTarFixtureFBS});
+        }
 
         DocumentMongoFixture documentFixture = new DocumentMongoFixture(MongoUtils.URL, createBlobStore());
         if (documentFixture.isAvailable()) {
diff --git oak-segment-tar/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/segment/fixture/SegmentTarFixture.java oak-segment-tar/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/segment/fixture/SegmentTarFixture.java
index 8b55cf9..349ab7d 100644
--- oak-segment-tar/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/segment/fixture/SegmentTarFixture.java
+++ oak-segment-tar/src/test/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/segment/fixture/SegmentTarFixture.java
@@ -22,18 +22,32 @@ package org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.fixture;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.fixture.NodeStoreFixture;
+import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.SegmentNodeStore;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.SegmentNodeStoreBuilders;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.memory.MemoryStore;
 import org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.state.NodeStore;
 
 public class SegmentTarFixture extends NodeStoreFixture {
+    private final SegmentNodeStore sns;
 
+    public SegmentTarFixture() {
+        this(null);
+    }
+    
+    public SegmentTarFixture(SegmentNodeStore sns) {
+        this.sns = sns;
+    }
+    
     @Override
     public NodeStore createNodeStore() {
-        try {
-            return SegmentNodeStoreBuilders.builder(new MemoryStore()).build();
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        if (sns == null) {
+            try {
+                return SegmentNodeStoreBuilders.builder(new MemoryStore()).build();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(e);
+            }
+        } else {
+            return sns;
         }
     }