[Gluster-devel] Responsibilities and expectations of our maintainers

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 03/28/2015 02:08 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Emmanuel,
>>           What can we do to make it vote -2 when it fails? Things will
>> automatically fall in place if it gives -2.
> I will do this once I will have recovered. The changelog change broke
> regression for weeks, and now we have a fix for it I discover many other
> poblems have crop.
By which time some more problems may creep in, it will be chicken and 
egg problem. Force a -2. Everybody will work just on Netbsd for a while 
but after that things should be just similar to Linux. It would probably 
be a good idea to decide a date on which this forcing would happen.

Pranith
>
> While there, to anyone:
> - dd bs=1M is not portable. Use
>    dd bs=1024k
> - echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches is not portable. use instead this
> command that fails but flushes inodes first.
>    ( cd $M0 && umount $M0 )
> - umount $N0 brings many problems, use instead
>    EXPECT_WITHIN $UMOUNT_TIMEOUT "Y" umount_nfs $N0
>
>