From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 25 06:44:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C95F77D2; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f05:b76::196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01CCB08; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from u10-2-32-011.office.norse-data.com (unknown [50.204.88.51]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9D56F341F86A; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <544B46BA.4000008@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 23:44:10 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper , Craig Rodrigues Subject: Re: Automatically running /usr/tests on stable/10 branch under Jenkins References: <20141024053636.GH11222@dft-labs.eu> <81030948-E60F-4AAD-AAF1-16349607917D@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <81030948-E60F-4AAD-AAF1-16349607917D@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" , FreeBSD stable , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:44:10 -0000 On 10/24/14 9:45 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Oct 24, 2014, at 21:20, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:06 PM, K. Macy wrote: >> >>>>> (2) Creates a bootable UFS image with makefs >>>> any chance zfs will be used as well? >>>> >>> Seconded. There are residual locking issues issues in ZFS. >>> Particularly in the less exercised areas. >>> >> I think what would be an interesting exercise is to set up a Jenkins job to >> build >> and boot a bhyve VM with ZFS, and then run >> the ZFS Test Suite, ported by Alan Somers to FreeBSD: >> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2014-August/000503.html >> >> >> Are there any volunteers who would like to help set that up and get it >> running >> under Jenkins? > I think getting tools/regression/zfs working first would be a better idea (which means that ZFS developers will need to go debug/fix the issue noted in https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191574 ). I’ll go ahead and commit my fixes to head from my github fork so it runs. > > Alan also suggested against integrating the test suite as-is, because as he said, "Remember, don't run these tests on a production system. They WILL cause panics and deadlocks, and they may cause data loss too.” > > Cheers, > -Garrett Wait, we want to sweep those bugs under the rug? What exactly is wrong with making a test harness that can very easily reproduce a known problem? The chances are that anyone will dive into it once the bug is easily reproducible. -Alfred