Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0
Robert N. M. Watson
rwatson at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 22 10:21:51 UTC 2009
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
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