[Fedora QA] #154: Tracker: critical path test case creation

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 12/13/2010 04:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 15:43 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>
>>>    what does everyone think, particularly of the naming and the
>>>    categorization? I don't quite feel that this one's nailed down yet, if
>>>    anyone has smart ideas that'd be great. thanks.
>>>
>>    Seems straightforward.  I assume it doesn't make any difference if
>> bios raid devices are being used as well as mdadm created devices.
>
> actually, it does. Most BIOS RAID devices aren't handled by mdadm (only
> recent Intel BIOS RAID devices are), and there are different codepaths
> there, so theoretically, software RAID and Intel BIOS RAID could be in
> different states - one working and the other broken. The Grand Plan
> would be to have separate test cases for each.
>
> But the content of this specific test case isn't really the important
> thing here, it's just an example to give a feel for how the whole
> critpath test case setup will look. I threw it together in half an hour
> or so, it wasn't carefully worked out (or, well, tested :>)


Well, I have both setups on two different machines and mdadm works ok on 
both AFAICT.

Willing to test both!!

Regards,
OldFart