Excerpts from Brian J. Murrell's message of Tue Jun 21 10:18:06 UTC 2011: > On 11-06-20 07:10 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Christian, if you're using NFS root, you probably have an issue. But it > > is probably not *this* issue, as this one was not specific to nfs root > > configurations. It would be quite helpful if you were to raise a new bug > > report against nfs-utils that detailed what you expect to have happen, > > and what is actually happening. > > But the question that begs to be asked is why are common configurations > like NFS-root and separate /var and /usr filesystems STILL not part of > Ubuntu's standard QA processes? > > These are not entirely "esoteric" configurations you know and they have > been shown to have problems in past releases so why are current QA > processes not testing for these? > > You do understand that effective QA means that when a configuration is > shown to have a potential for regressions that such a configuration be > added to the battery of tests that QA runs. It's simply not effective > to identify a configuration that doesn't work, (think that you have) > fix(ed) it and simply move on and not ever test that configuration again > during a regular release cycle. That's exactly how regressions leak > into GA product. It's embarrassing.
Brian, much of our QA is still community driven. We devote significant resources to testing the base system, but multi-server setups like NFS root are taxing to manually test, and more complex to automate. I'd love to say we write a regression test for every issue we fix and run it on every possible configuration. Clearly, we don't. If NFS root is important to you, I would suggest that you help us out by gathering other interested users, and putting together a blueprint for the next UDS. Lets get automated tests setup for this configuration. I'd support this 100%, but I don't think we can do it without some help from the actual users of NFS root systems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525154 Title: mountall for /var races with rpc.statd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/525154/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
