[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-Maintainers] Glusterfs-3.7.13 release plans
M S Vishwanath Bhat
msvbhat at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 14:55:46 UTC 2016
On 3 July 2016 at 17:10, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 08:09:31PM +0530, M S Vishwanath Bhat wrote:
> > On 30 June 2016 at 14:09, Nigel Babu <nigelb at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:27:23AM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:46:57PM +0530, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Atin Mukherjee <
> amukherj at redhat.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Hi all,
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> I'm (or was) planning to do a 3.7.13 release on schedule today.
> > > 3.7.12
> > > > > >> has a huge issue with libgfapi, solved by [1].
> > > > > >> I'm not sure if this fixes the other issues with libgfapi
> noticed by
> > > > > >> Lindsay on gluster-users.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> This patch has been included in the packages 3.7.12 built for
> > > CentOS,
> > > > > >> Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE. I guess Lindsay is using one of
> > > these
> > > > > >> packages, so it might be that the issue seen is new. So I'd
> like to
> > > do
> > > > > >> a quick release once we have a fix.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://review.gluster.org/14835 probably is the one you are
> > > looking for.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ignore it. I had a chance to talk to Poornima and she mentioned
> that
> > > this
> > > > > is a different problem.
> > > >
> > > > The patch that fixes the problem is http://review.gluster.org/14822
> and
> > > > I've merged it yesterday. The problem was introduced by
> > > > http://review.gluster.org/14822 (similar subject as 12835 above).
> > > > Unfortunately none of the libgfapi maintainer did completely review
> the
> > > > change before it got merged. It also seems that minimal testing was
> done
> > > > after the change got included (last minute change in 3.8, quickly
> > > > backported as well).
> > > >
> > > > In order to make Gluster more stable, and prevent problems like this
> > > > again, we really need to work on automating test cases. I hope all
> > > > maintainers are thinking about how they want to test the components
> they
> > > > are responsible for. For example, I'm planning to run the upstream
> QEMU
> > > > tests against our nightly builds (libgfapi), and similar for the
> > > > connectathon tests (Gluster/NFS). At one point it should be possible
> to
> > > > wrap these in DiSTAF, but the DiSTAF job in the CentOS CI is not
> ready
> > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Niels
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Maintainers can merge changes into release-3.7 that follow the
> > > > > >> criteria given in [2]. Please make sure to add the bugs for
> patches
> > > > > >> you are merging are added as dependencies for the 3.7.13
> tracker bug
> > > > > >> [3].
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Thanks,
> > > > > >> Kaushal
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> [1]: https://review.gluster.org/14822
> > > > > >> [2]:
> https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/glusterfs-release-process-201606
> > > > > >> under the GlusterFS minor release heading
> > > > > >> [3]:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.7.13
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> > > What needs to happen for DiSTAF job on Centos CI? I'm pushing hard to
> get
> > > more
> > > DiSTAF tests upstream. I can help solve the pipeline/infra issues
> related
> > > to
> > > this.
> > >
> >
> > I have replied about this in other mail. Basically we just need
> integration
> > with gdeploy (or similar tool) to install gluster and create the xfs
> > backend for starting the distaf run.
> >
> > The other issue was not having the disks in the machines provisioned by
> > duffy. But this was discussed and IIRC the temporary solution was to run
> > with loopback mount.
>
> Yes, the physical systems in the CentOS CI do not have spare,
> unpartitioned disks. Creating an image file and using that as disk is
> the suggested workaround.
>
> Creating disks is pretty simple, this works just fine (needs some work
> for reboot cases):
>
> [root at vm016 ~]# fallocate -l 1G /var/tmp/brick_01.img
> [root at vm016 ~]# losetup -f /var/tmp/brick_01.img
> [root at vm016 ~]# losetup -l
> NAME SIZELIMIT OFFSET AUTOCLEAR RO BACK-FILE
> /dev/loop0 0 0 0 0 /var/tmp/brick_01.img
> [root at vm016 ~]# pvcreate /dev/loop0
> Physical volume "/dev/loop0" successfully created
> [root at vm016 ~]# vgcreate brick_01 /dev/loop0
> Volume group "brick_01" successfully created
> [root at vm016 ~]# vgs
> VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
> brick_01 1 0 0 wz--n- 1020.00m 1020.00m
>
Thanks Niels. This is more helpful.
I couldn't put as much work as I wanted to but getting something done. I
have something written today, but will test that tomorrow (I still need to
find my ssh keys to get access to CentOS jumphost.
Best Regards,
Vishwanath
>
>
> HTH,
> Niels
>
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Vishwanath
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Vishwanath
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > nigelb
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