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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:35:31 -0800
From:      Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r343543 - head/sbin/bectl/tests
Message-ID:  <82187F03-C50D-4430-9764-ABA6E28125E9@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201901290431.x0T4VrZm006702@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201901290431.x0T4VrZm006702@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Jan 28, 2019, at 20:31, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>=
 wrote:

>>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:09 PM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>=20
>>> Author: kevans
>>> Date: Tue Jan 29 04:08:49 2019
>>> New Revision: 343543
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343543
>>>=20
>>> Log:
>>>  bectl(8) test: Force destroy the zpool in cleanup
>>>=20
>>>  This is a wild guess as to why bectl tests failed once upon a time in C=
I,
>>>  given no apparent way to see a transcript of cleanup routines with Kyua=
. The
>>>  bectl tests construct a new, clean zpool for every test. The failure
>>>  indicated was because of a mount that was leftover from a previous test=
, but
>>>  the previous test had succeeded so it's not clear how the mount remaine=
d
>>>  leftover unless the `zpool get health ${pool}` had somehow failed.
>>>=20
>>=20
>> I left out: the tests are supposed to be constructed to clean up any
>> mounts that were left over in the course of the test, hence the
>> assumption that the failure lies in the cleanup.

Hi Rod,

> =46rom my experience as a hardware test engineer the test
> setup was required to make sure any of those assumptions
> are valid.  Meaning that the test would have to validate
> that no left over cruft was going to interfere with the
> test about to be run.
>=20
> Ie, you should probably do a force destroy of the pool
> *before* the test too.

While this approach makes sense and is valid, it would leave open/orphaned r=
esources after each test run (in this case a single zpool). It=E2=80=99s bes=
t to fix the underlying issue with how the test formulates, sets up, and tea=
rs down the zpool.

Cheers,
-Enji=



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