Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:21:48 +0100 From: "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0 Message-ID: <CE739B49-29B2-4612-AA15-B75057C416E1@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200908122159.25234.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908121329130.66335@fledge.watson.org> <200908122159.25234.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>
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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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