On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:25 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: Hi Bryce, I like your status report for NFSv4 testing, are you planning on doing the same for memory hotplug once the testing is in place and in full swing? .....this is my "not so subtle" way of saying please do :-) Martine > NFSv4 Testing Status - Aug 2005 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Main Achievements > ================= > * Presentation of NFSv4 to Lawrence Livermore National Labs > * Received donation from NetApp > * Bugzilla enhancements > * Released package_tester 0.1 > > Monthly Statistics > ================== > JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG > NFSv4 Kernel Releases: 7 7 7 2 3 7 2 0 > NFSv4 List Traffic: 148 210 233 185 165 250 186 161 > NFSv4 Conference Calls: 1 3 4 4 DONE > NFSv4 New Bug Reports: 9 11 11 > > OSDL Cross-Compile Runs: 12 ~84 88 22 33 39 22 0 > OSDL Regression Tests Run: 12 8 0 > OSDL Issues Found: 2 9 11 11 3 5 13 0 > OSDL Releases Delivered: > Upstream Patches 0 3 6 0 0 0 7 0 > Test Matrix ~10 2 4 4 DONE 1 1 0 > Documents 0 1 0 1 1 2 3 0 > Presentations 2 1 > Tools/Scripts 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 4 > > Test Matrix States: > NEW 132 199 263 251 260 245 249 249 > OPEN 16 18 33 56 56 72 60 62 > IN PROGRESS 3 3 6 6 5 5 8 8 > NEAR DONE 0 0 1 1 3 3 3 3 > DONE 7 7 5 6 13 13 16 16 > > > Description of Activities > ========================= > For NFSv4 testing there was a bit of a lull this month, due I think to > vacations, conferences, and so forth. > > There were no new NFS patches released this month, so I focused on > making improvements to the test harness, bug tracker, and test matrix; > nothing super noteworthy but closed a lot of medium-priority requests. > I've added improvements for error checking, logging, and portability, > and have put out an initial release of this code, package_tester 0.1. > > NetApp provided a donation to OSDL to support the NFSv4 testing > efforts for travel and hardware costs. This enabled me to give a > presentation at Lawrence Livermore National Labs about the community's > efforts. I was fortunate to learn about 4 new GPL'd tests that we hadn't > known about previously, that test metadata and parallel file systems. I > haven't dug into them yet but am looking forward to hooking them up over > the next month or so if they prove relevant to our needs. > > The bug tracker has had an impressive amount of activity and seems to be > well embraced by the NFSv4 developers. It appears to have become an > integral part of the community's practices, which is quite gratifying to > see, and should hopefully give a lot of QA benefits over the long term. > > Last week I investigated a newer release of Bugzilla and tested it out > against our systems. Looks like it works okay, and I'm planning on > switching over to it within the next week. > > Presently I'm working on figuring out how to solve the issue with iozone > failing during my test runs; this has been on my todo list for months. > I'm also rewriting my NFSv4 service startup scripts and making some > improvements to my build kernel scripts; this work is to structure the > code to work more reliably on a wider range of platforms, because I am > planning in the coming months to spread my test harness across a wider > variety of hardware (PPC64, Itanium2, AMD64, NetApp, etc.) > > There is a discussion on the NFSv4 mailing list currently about > publishing an article about the status of NFSv4, testing, etc. with the > goal of encouraging early adopters to start adopting. There is some > debate about how hard we should push this, given that it's still early > in development and we don't want people to get a bad impression. > However, there seems to be a concensus that we're ready to start > building a userbase, and need to do this now if we hope to achieve > 'enterprise ready' status in a reasonable timeframe. What we need the > most right now are a few testamonials from end users that have deployed > NFSv4 for production use. > > _______________________________________________ > Storage_sig mailing list > Storage_sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/storage_sig
