Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:34:06 +0100 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BSvpFs6NuVD1nEmnjTpxrugGDp2piOpWddcz7H_1FqJDrQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201202241346.15160.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> References: <4F46847D.4010908@my.gd> <op.v95ejibz34t2sn@tech304> <4F46ADC8.2080408@brockmann-consult.de> <201202241346.15160.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Erich Dollansky < erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 24 February 2012 04:21:12 Peter Maloney wrote: > > Am 23.02.2012 21:15, schrieb Mark Felder: > > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:25:01 -0600, Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Now, I find the number of problem reports regarding 9.0-RELEASE > alarming > > >> and I'm growing more and more fearful towards it. > > > > > I suggest these concepts should be tested: > > > I can tell you what in practical terms stops me from testing very often. > The switch back to the running version. > > Let me suggest this. > > Currently, we have on the disk normally two kernels. The current one and > the last one. Why not add a third one called testing? > > Add then an entry into the boot menu that users can switch between the > current kernel and a kernel they just installed for testing. > Well, as you would want to test both kernel + userland its get a bit tricky on ufs based system, as you have to setup several slices/partitions. For ZFS its easier, as the only thing required would be a snapshot of clean install, which the user then can just zfs recv, modify vfs.root.mountfrom and so on. Just my thoughts. Andreas > > I know that I can do this manually. But this is the point where it becomes > difficult for the majority of people. > > As FreeBSD needs a large amount of testing on unknown hardware, this could > increase the number of actual testers without much effort. > > Ok, the developers must then be ready to deal with reports which miss many > things. > > Erich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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