<div dir="ltr">Thanks to those who participated.<div><br></div><div>Update at present:</div><div><br></div><div>We found 3 blocker bugs in upgrade scenarios, and hence have marked release as pending upon them. We will keep these lists updated about progress.</div><div><br></div><div>-Amar</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:41 PM Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <<a href="mailto:atumball@redhat.com" target="_blank">atumball@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Hi all,</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">We are calling out our users, and developers to contribute in validating ‘glusterfs-6.0rc’ build in their usecase. Specially for the cases of upgrade, stability, and performance.</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Some of the key highlights of the release are listed in <a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-6/doc/release-notes/6.0.md" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">release-notes draft</a>. Please note that there are some of the features which are being dropped out of this release, and hence making sure your setup is not going to have an issue is critical. Also the default <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.04);border-radius:3px;margin:0px;color:inherit">lru-limit</code> option in fuse mount for Inodes should help to control the memory usage of client processes. All the good reason to give it a shot in your test setup.</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">If you are developer using gfapi interface to integrate with other projects, you also have some signature changes, so please make sure your project would work with latest release. Or even if you are using a project which depends on gfapi, report the error with new RPMs (if any). We will help fix it.</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">As part of test days, we want to focus on testing the latest upcoming release i.e. GlusterFS-6, and one or the other gluster volunteers would be there on #gluster channel on freenode to assist the people. Some of the key things we are looking as bug reports are:</p><ul class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">See if upgrade from your current version to 6.0rc is smooth, and works as documented.</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">Report bugs in process, or in documentation if you find mismatch.</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">Functionality is all as expected for your usecase.</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">No issues with actual application you would run on production etc.</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">Performance has not degraded in your usecase.</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">While we have added some performance options to the code, not all of them are turned on, as they have to be done based on usecases.</li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Make sure the default setup is at least same as your current version</li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Try out few options mentioned in release notes (especially, <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;font-size:13.6px;padding:0.2em 0px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.04);border-radius:3px;margin:0px;color:inherit">--auto-invalidation=no</code>) and see if it helps performance.</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">While doing all the above, check below:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">see if the log files are making sense, and not flooding with some “for developer only” type of messages.</li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">get ‘profile info’ output from old and now, and see if there is anything which is out of normal expectation. Check with us on the numbers.</li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">get a ‘statedump’ when there are some issues. Try to make sense of it, and raise a bug if you don’t understand it completely.</li></ul></li></ul><h3 class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" id="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-Process-expected-on-test-days" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";line-height:1.25;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:16px;font-size:1.25em;letter-spacing:0.35px"><a class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-anchor gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-hidden-xs" href="https://hackmd.io/YB60uRCMQRC90xhNt4r6gA?both#Process-expected-on-test-days" title="Process-expected-on-test-days" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none;float:left;padding-right:4px;line-height:1" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-octicon gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-octicon-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:1;font-family:octicons;display:inline-block;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:middle"></span></a>Process expected on test days.</h3><ul class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">We have a tracker <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-6.0" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">bug</a>[0]</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">We will attach all the ‘blocker’ bugs to this bug.</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">Use this link to report bugs, so that we have more metadata around given bugzilla.</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?blocked=1672818&bug_severity=high&component=core&priority=high&product=GlusterFS&status_whiteboard=gluster-test-day&version=6" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Click Here</a>[1]</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px">The test cases which are to be tested are listed <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AS-tDiJmAr9skK535MbLJGe_RfqDQ3j1abX1wtjwpL4/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">here in this sheet</a>[2], please add, update, and keep it up-to-date to reduce duplicate efforts.</p></li></ul><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Lets together make this release a success.</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Also check if we covered some of the open issues from <a href="https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055874.html" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Weekly untriaged bugs</a>[3]</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">For details on build and RPMs <a href="https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055875.html" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">check this email</a>[4]</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Finally, the dates :-)</p><ul class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">Wednesday - Feb 27th, and</li><li class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Thursday - Feb 28th</li></ul><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Note that our goal is to identify as many issues as possible in upgrade and stability scenarios, and if any blockers are found, want to make sure we release with the fix for same. So each of you, Gluster users, feel comfortable to upgrade to 6.0 version.</p><p class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Regards,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Gluster Ants.</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail-m_-8338077391081475492gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Amar Tumballi (amarts)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_8758196177039688930gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Amar Tumballi (amarts)<br></div></div></div></div></div>