cvs commit: src/sys/geom/concat g_concat.c src/sys/geom/label g_label.c src/sys/geom/mirror g_mirror.c src/sys/geom/raid3 g_raid3.c src/sys/geom/stripe g_stripe.c

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:09:16PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20040826200728.GP77326 at green.homeunix.org>, Brian Fundakowski Feldm
> an writes:
> 
> >> They have been very successful in this respect, and more will be
> >> added as I think them up.
> >
> >Why in the world would you crash the machine when you don't have to?
> 
> To prevent bogus code from being committed in the first place.
> 
> Presumably if people can not make their code work because it panics
> they will not commit it.

You cannot presume testing will expose every possible state/condition.
It hasn't in FreeBSD's past, but maybe you can start a revolution that
makes it simple to create very complete test suites and put them into
the tree along with the code being tested.

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