ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

Darren Pilgrim darren.pilgrim at bitfreak.org
Tue Sep 12 12:40:24 PDT 2006


Karl Denninger wrote:
> I don't think its too much to ask that before something is MFC'd back to
> -STABLE from -CURRENT that it <at least> be tested for the most common
> functionality (that is, does it work at all?)  In this case all that someone
> had to do was boot the system and then detach and reattach a mirror component -
> the most basic of functionality - to detect that the patch was bad.
> 
> That obviously wasn't done in this instance.
> 
> I understand that finding corner cases and expecting exhaustive testing 
> is unreasonable from a free project - even in a -RELEASE we don't get that.
> 
> But this wasn't a corner case - it was a situation where absolutely zero
> testing was performed before the MFC was sent back to the source tree.

So when can the FreeBSD Foundation expect your donation of computers for 
the purpose of GEOM testing?

-- 
Darren Pilgrim


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