QA suite plans

QA suite plans

[Ahmed Kamal]

Hi Team,
I have been following the btrfs project since Chris announced it last
year. I am happy to see v1.0 is planned in Q4. This is awesome, we can
finally get something like ZFS on Linux. The project pace is nothing
short of amazing. Thank you :)

I notice the plans contain "QA suite".
I would like to ask if there are any written plans for this QA suite yet ?
Is the suite going to be kernel code, or is it basically going to be a
set of scripts using btrfs userspace commands for regression testing ?

Thank you

Re: QA suite plans

[Josef Bacik]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:06:00PM +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Hi Team,
> I have been following the btrfs project since Chris announced it last
> year. I am happy to see v1.0 is planned in Q4. This is awesome, we can
> finally get something like ZFS on Linux. The project pace is nothing
> short of amazing. Thank you :)
> 
> I notice the plans contain "QA suite".
> I would like to ask if there are any written plans for this QA suite yet ?
> Is the suite going to be kernel code, or is it basically going to be a
> set of scripts using btrfs userspace commands for regression testing ?

AFAIK its going to be alot like the xfs stuff, where its just a bunch of scripts
to test for regressions.  So stuff to test the subvol/snapshotting stuff, and
then other scripts to test the normal filesystem aspects of btrfs.  Thanks,

Josef

Re: QA suite plans

[Ahmed Kamal]

Ok, cool. If the torture suite is a bunch of scripts, that is probably
something I can help with. I don't know what's the contribute policy
for this project, but if contributors are welcome I would like to
start a wiki page to gather test suite ideas, and I'd start writing
scripts to execute the tests and report back results

A bit intro about myself: I come from a "system engineering"
background. I've been introduced to Linux around 10 years ago. I'm an
RHCE, and currently work as a system engineer, integrating solutions
and consulting on them. I have been involved with the Fedora
community.

Action Items:
- How do I get access to create a wiki page
- Any instructions on checking out the code and building it ?
- I'm planning on using a VM for testing, any specific VMs recommended
(VirtualBox?)

Thanks

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:06:00PM +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>> Hi Team,
>> I have been following the btrfs project since Chris announced it last
>> year. I am happy to see v1.0 is planned in Q4. This is awesome, we can
>> finally get something like ZFS on Linux. The project pace is nothing
>> short of amazing. Thank you :)
>>
>> I notice the plans contain "QA suite".
>> I would like to ask if there are any written plans for this QA suite yet ?
>> Is the suite going to be kernel code, or is it basically going to be a
>> set of scripts using btrfs userspace commands for regression testing ?
>
> AFAIK its going to be alot like the xfs stuff, where its just a bunch of scripts
> to test for regressions.  So stuff to test the subvol/snapshotting stuff, and
> then other scripts to test the normal filesystem aspects of btrfs.  Thanks,
>
> Josef
>

Re: QA suite plans

[Miguel Sousa Filipe]

Hi there,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ahmed Kamal
<email.ahmedkamal@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ok, cool. If the torture suite is a bunch of scripts, that is probably
> something I can help with. I don't know what's the contribute policy
> for this project, but if contributors are welcome I would like to
> start a wiki page to gather test suite ideas, and I'd start writing
> scripts to execute the tests and report back results
>
> A bit intro about myself: I come from a "system engineering"
> background. I've been introduced to Linux around 10 years ago. I'm an
> RHCE, and currently work as a system engineer, integrating solutions
> and consulting on them. I have been involved with the Fedora
> community.
>
> Action Items:
> - How do I get access to create a wiki page

point your browser to: http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org
create one account there

> - Any instructions on checking out the code and building it ?

see:
http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories

To build the code, use make, read the INSTALL file

> - I'm planning on using a VM for testing, any specific VMs recommended
> (VirtualBox?)

not that I know of.

Kind regards



-- 
Miguel Sousa Filipe

Re: QA suite plans

[Ahmed Kamal]

Thanks man, I got myself a wiki account, and get btrfs up and running
in a VM. Will start planning for the test suite

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Miguel Sousa Filipe
<miguel.filipe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ahmed Kamal
> <email.ahmedkamal@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, cool. If the torture suite is a bunch of scripts, that is probably
>> something I can help with. I don't know what's the contribute policy
>> for this project, but if contributors are welcome I would like to
>> start a wiki page to gather test suite ideas, and I'd start writing
>> scripts to execute the tests and report back results
>>
>> A bit intro about myself: I come from a "system engineering"
>> background. I've been introduced to Linux around 10 years ago. I'm an
>> RHCE, and currently work as a system engineer, integrating solutions
>> and consulting on them. I have been involved with the Fedora
>> community.
>>
>> Action Items:
>> - How do I get access to create a wiki page
>
> point your browser to: http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org
> create one account there
>
>> - Any instructions on checking out the code and building it ?
>
> see:
> http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories
>
> To build the code, use make, read the INSTALL file
>
>> - I'm planning on using a VM for testing, any specific VMs recommended
>> (VirtualBox?)
>
> not that I know of.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> --
> Miguel Sousa Filipe
>

Re: QA suite plans

[Tim Gelter]

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Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Thanks man, I got myself a wiki account, and get btrfs up and running
> in a VM. Will start planning for the test suite
> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Miguel Sousa Filipe
> <miguel.filipe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Ahmed Kamal
>> <email.ahmedkamal@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, cool. If the torture suite is a bunch of scripts, that is probably
>>> something I can help with. I don't know what's the contribute policy
>>> for this project, but if contributors are welcome I would like to
>>> start a wiki page to gather test suite ideas, and I'd start writing
>>> scripts to execute the tests and report back results
>>>
>>> A bit intro about myself: I come from a "system engineering"
>>> background. I've been introduced to Linux around 10 years ago. I'm an
>>> RHCE, and currently work as a system engineer, integrating solutions
>>> and consulting on them. I have been involved with the Fedora
>>> community.
>>>
>>> Action Items:
>>> - How do I get access to create a wiki page
>> point your browser to: http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org
>> create one account there
>>
>>> - Any instructions on checking out the code and building it ?
>> see:
>> http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories
>>
>> To build the code, use make, read the INSTALL file
>>
>>> - I'm planning on using a VM for testing, any specific VMs recommended
>>> (VirtualBox?)
>> not that I know of.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Miguel Sousa Filipe
>>
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Hello all,
I've been silently following the development of btrfs for a while now.
After checking out and building the kernel module, I am unable to insmod
it. It complains that it's not of a valid type. Any ideas?
-Tim


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Re: Problems building btrfs

[Chris Mason]

On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:36 -0600, Tim Gelter wrote:

> Hello all,
> I've been silently following the development of btrfs for a while now.
> After checking out and building the kernel module, I am unable to insmod
> it. It complains that it's not of a valid type. Any ideas?
> -Tim
> 

Hello,

Could you please cut n' paste the error messages, as well as anything
from the kernel dmesg.

-chris

Re: Problems building btrfs

[tgelter]

On 12:20 pm 07/18/08 Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:36 -0600, Tim Gelter wrote:
>
> >  Hello all,
> >  I've been silently following the development of btrfs for a while
> >  now. After checking out and building the kernel module, I am
> >  unable to insmod it. It complains that it's not of a valid type.
> >  Any ideas? -Tim
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> Could you please cut n' paste the error messages, as well as anything
> from the kernel dmesg.
>
> -chris

[tgelter@guapFed kernel]$ uname -r
2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64
[tgelter@guapFed kernel]$ make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64'
[tgelter@guapFed kernel]$ su -
Password or swipe finger: 
[root@guapFed ~]# cd /home/tgelter/btrfs/kernel/
[root@guapFed kernel]# modprobe libcrc32c
[root@guapFed kernel]# lsmod | grep libcrc32c
libcrc32c              11008  0 
[root@guapFed kernel]# insmod btrfs.ko
insmod: error inserting 'btrfs.ko': -1 Invalid module format
[root@guapFed kernel]# 

[root@guapFed kernel]# dmesg
---snip---
btrfs: version magic '2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64stripped SMP mod_unload '
should be '2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 SMP mod_unload '
---snip---


Looks like I've got some residue of a custom kernel compile I was trying
before cached somewhere. I haven't the foggiest idea how to get things
straightened out...looks like I'll be hitting up freenode's #fedora for
help.