From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 19:40:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3130516A594 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:40:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org) Received: from mail.twinthornes.com (mail.twinthornes.com [65.75.198.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB56B43D45 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:40:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org) Received: from [10.242.169.21] (c-67-171-135-169.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.135.169]) by mail.twinthornes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00761D8B; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <45070D24.8000709@bitfreak.org> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:40:20 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: karl@denninger.net References: <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <45065C67.6040503@cs.tu-berlin.de> <20060912141547.GA11713@FS.denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <20060912141547.GA11713@FS.denninger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:40:24 -0000 Karl Denninger wrote: > I don't think its too much to ask that before something is MFC'd back to > -STABLE from -CURRENT that it be tested for the most common > functionality (that is, does it work at all?) In this case all that someone > had to do was boot the system and then detach and reattach a mirror component - > the most basic of functionality - to detect that the patch was bad. > > That obviously wasn't done in this instance. > > I understand that finding corner cases and expecting exhaustive testing > is unreasonable from a free project - even in a -RELEASE we don't get that. > > But this wasn't a corner case - it was a situation where absolutely zero > testing was performed before the MFC was sent back to the source tree. So when can the FreeBSD Foundation expect your donation of computers for the purpose of GEOM testing? -- Darren Pilgrim