[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-Maintainers] GlusterFS - 6.0RC - Test days (27th, 28th Feb)

Shyam Ranganathan srangana at redhat.com
Mon Mar 4 17:33:49 UTC 2019


On 3/4/19 10:08 AM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 20:33, Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan
> <atumball at redhat.com <mailto:atumball at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks to those who participated.
> 
>     Update at present:
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
> I’d like to clarify that upgrade testing is blocked. So just fixing
> these test blocker(s) isn’t enough to call release-6 green. We need to
> continue and finish the rest of the upgrade tests once the respective
> bugs are fixed.

Based on fixes expected by tomorrow for the upgrade fixes, we will build
an RC1 candidate on Wednesday (6-Mar) (tagging early Wed. Eastern TZ).
This RC can be used for further testing.

> 
> 
> 
>     -Amar
> 
>     On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:41 PM Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <
>     atumball at redhat.com <mailto:atumball at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > Some of the key highlights of the release are listed in release-notes
>     > draft
>     >
>     <https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-6/doc/release-notes/6.0.md>.
>     > 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 lru-limit 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.
>     >
>     > 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.
>     >
>     > 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:
>     >
>     >    -
>     >
>     >    See if upgrade from your current version to 6.0rc is smooth,
>     and works
>     >    as documented.
>     >    - Report bugs in process, or in documentation if you find mismatch.
>     >    -
>     >
>     >    Functionality is all as expected for your usecase.
>     >    - No issues with actual application you would run on production
>     etc.
>     >    -
>     >
>     >    Performance has not degraded in your usecase.
>     >    - 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.
>     >       - Make sure the default setup is at least same as your current
>     >       version
>     >       - Try out few options mentioned in release notes (especially,
>     >       --auto-invalidation=no) and see if it helps performance.
>     >    -
>     >
>     >    While doing all the above, check below:
>     >    - see if the log files are making sense, and not flooding with some
>     >       “for developer only” type of messages.
>     >       - 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.
>     >       - 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.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     <https://hackmd.io/YB60uRCMQRC90xhNt4r6gA?both#Process-expected-on-test-days>Process
>     > expected on test days.
>     >
>     >    -
>     >
>     >    We have a tracker bug
>     >    <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-6.0>[0]
>     >    - We will attach all the ‘blocker’ bugs to this bug.
>     >    -
>     >
>     >    Use this link to report bugs, so that we have more metadata around
>     >    given bugzilla.
>     >    - Click Here
>     >     
>      <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>
>     >       [1]
>     >    -
>     >
>     >    The test cases which are to be tested are listed here in this sheet
>     >   
>     <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AS-tDiJmAr9skK535MbLJGe_RfqDQ3j1abX1wtjwpL4/edit?usp=sharing>[2],
>     >    please add, update, and keep it up-to-date to reduce duplicate
>     efforts
> 
> -- 
> - Atin (atinm)
> 
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