From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751699AbdBMFId (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:08:33 -0500 Received: from smtp2.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.81]:60537 "EHLO smtp2.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023AbdBMFIc (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:08:32 -0500 Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.0 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux To: Jes Sorensen , Bruce Dubbs , "Brown, Neil" References: <1cd97490-e650-d98b-466a-095292dc5b98@gmail.com> <58751E90.5090306@gmail.com> <20170111165241.yavdwc57v6yodx7g@kernel.org> <587704FC.6030701@suse.com> <4eb83aa0-6245-d499-f18a-e8456aad9f98@gmail.com> Cc: Guoqing Jiang , Shaohua Li , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" , LKML From: zhilong Message-ID: <6504747e-c49e-dc54-64a6-bce2220daffc@suse.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:08:41 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4eb83aa0-6245-d499-f18a-e8456aad9f98@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Jes; On 01/13/2017 12:41 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 01/11/17 23:24, Guoqing Jiang wrote: >> >> On 01/12/2017 12:59 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >>> On 01/11/17 11:52, Shaohua Li wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:49:04AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>>> Jes Sorensen wrote: >>>>>> I am pleased to announce the availability of >>>>>> mdadm version 4.0 >>>>>> >>>>>> It is available at the usual places: >>>>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ >>>>>> and via git at >>>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git >>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/ >>>>>> >>>>>> The update in major version number primarily indicates this is a >>>>>> release by it's new maintainer. In addition it contains a large number >>>>>> of fixes in particular for IMSM RAID and clustered RAID support. In >>>>>> addition this release includes support for IMSM 4k sector drives, >>>>>> failfast and better documentation for journaled RAID. >>>>> Thank you for the new release. Unfortunately I get 9 failures >>>>> running the >>>>> test suite: >>>>> >>>>> tests/00raid1... FAILED >>>>> tests/07autoassemble... FAILED >>>>> tests/07changelevels... FAILED >>>>> tests/07revert-grow... FAILED >>>>> tests/07revert-inplace... FAILED >>>>> tests/07testreshape5... FAILED >>>>> tests/10ddf-fail-twice... FAILED >>>>> tests/20raid5journal... FAILED >>>>> tests/10ddf-incremental-wrong-order... FAILED >>>> Yep, several tests usually fail. It appears some checks aren't always >>>> good. At >>>> least the 'check' function for reshape/resync isn't reliable in my >>>> test, I saw >>>> 07changelevelintr fails frequently. >>> That is my experience as well - some of them are affected by the kernel >>> version too. We probably need to look into making them more reliable. >> If possible, it could be a potential topic for lsf/mm raid discussion as >> Coly suggested >> in previous mail. >> >> Is current test can run the test for different raid level, say, "./test >> --raidtype=raid1" could >> execute all the *r1* tests, does it make sense to do it if we don't >> support it now. > We could have a discussion about this at LSF/MM, if someone is willing > to sponsor getting it accepted and we can get the right people there. > > Note that the test suite also allows you to run all the 01 tests by > specifying ./test 01. I do like to see the test suite improved and made > more resilient. I'm sorry for my late response, I'm just back to work today from vacation. In the past months, I learned and worked for cluster-md feature, and I have draft one test suit for cluster-md feature. please refer to https://github.com/zhilongliu/clustermd-autotest I'm very willing to do something for improving mdadm testing part, also wanna improve cluster-md test suit, welcome all comments for it. > Cheers, > Jes > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Thanks very much, -Zhilong