old_testing_critpath notifications

[Doug Ledford]

On 12/03/2010 04:09 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> We're working on this. It won't always be practical, however; in the
>> current case, for example, you need specific hardware to test mdadm.
> 
> Uh, this is md, not dm, you don't need very special HARDWARE (basically only 
> 2 HDDs, which do not even have to be identical, and you might even get away 
> with only 1 for testing, with absymal performance of course), you do need a 
> special setup though, which means repartitioning, and so isn't practical to 
> test on a production machine which isn't already set up that way.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

For non-boot devices, loopback works.  You only need the hardware if you
are testing boot time capabilities (which, admittedly, is the far more
important aspect of testing for this package).

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