Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:59:24 -0800 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Call for regression and performance testing - 8.0 Message-ID: <200908122159.25234.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908121329130.66335@fledge.watson.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0908121329130.66335@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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