Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0

[Robert N. M. Watson]

On 13 Aug 2009, at 06:59, Mel Flynn wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 August 2009 04:29:35 Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> We actually have a sizable regression test suite in src/tools/ 
>> regression --
>> some of these tools will have broken as a result of 8-CURRENT  
>> development,
>> so the first task may be to fix them.  The next is to run them on 7- 
>> STABLE
>> and 8-CURRENT and decide if things have gotten worse -- or maybe we  
>> have a
>> bug to fix in both.  Pick the tool of your choice, and give it a  
>> spin.
>> More than one person per tool is fine, because that way we get more  
>> diverse
>> testing.
>
> Well, there's one regression that prevents me from testing a  
> regression. In
> gmirror(8) and still on 8.x it is described how to do kernel dumps  
> on a
> gmirror, using /etc/rc.early. Yet, /etc/rc.d/early.sh has been  
> removed and a
> grep for early in the /etc tree, has not shown me that there's a  
> replacement
> in place.

Catching up on back e-mail here after a lot of conference  
organizing :-). Did this issue get resolved to everyone (most  
people)'s satisfaction? I've CC'd Pawel.

Robert

>
> I'm trying to see coming sunday (downtime) if a bug has re-occured  
> in 8.x
> (kern/122572) and would like to de-activate one component of the  
> mirror,
> install, reboot and if garbage is written to the disk again, use  
> livefs tools
> + rc.early to boot from the de-activated mirror.
>
> So my questions are:
> - What should really be in NOTES for gmirror(8) in 8.x?
> - Is it possible to deactivate a mirror component, hose the active  
> component
> and nextboot from the deactivated one, preferably without opening  
> the case?
> -- 
> Mel