From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 13 05:59:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DA01065697; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:59:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAD48FC63; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE2B7E818; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:59:26 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:59:24 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-BETA2; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908122159.25234.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Robert Watson Subject: Re: Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:59:28 -0000 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. 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