2022-01-04 18:55:09

by Bruce Dubbs

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Subject: mdadm regression tests fail

I am trying to document the mdadm-4.2 installation procedures for our book,
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/mdadm.html

For testing, I am doing a simple:

make
sudo ./test --keep-going --logdir=test-logs --save-logs

But I get failures for about half the tests.

Digging in a bit I just ran:

sudo ./test --tests=00raid0 --logdir=test-logs

This is the first test that fails. With some hacking, it appears that the first
portion of this test that fails is:

mdadm -CR $md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 $dev3

This resolves to

mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3

There is not a lot of error output in the test, so I manually ran:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/mdtest0 count=20000 bs=1K
losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/mdtest0

For /dev/loop[0123]

Then I ran

mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3
mdadm: 0.90 metadata does not support layouts for RAID0

My question is whether the regression tests in the tarball are valid for mdadm-4.2?

-- Bruce Dubbs
linuxfromscratch.org

Note: The kernel is version 5.15.12.


2022-01-05 17:12:52

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: Re: mdadm regression tests fail

Hi.
[adding linux-raid mailing list]


On 1/4/22 10:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I am trying to document the mdadm-4.2 installation procedures for our book,
> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/mdadm.html
>
> For testing, I am doing a simple:
>
>   make
>   sudo ./test --keep-going --logdir=test-logs --save-logs
>
> But I get failures for about half the tests.
>
> Digging in a bit I just ran:
>
>  sudo ./test --tests=00raid0 --logdir=test-logs
>
> This is the first test that fails.  With some hacking, it appears that the first portion of this test that fails is:
>
>   mdadm -CR $md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 $dev3
>
> This resolves to
>
>   mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3
>
> There is not a lot of error output in the test, so I manually ran:
>
>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/mdtest0 count=20000 bs=1K
>   losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/mdtest0
>
> For /dev/loop[0123]
>
> Then I ran
>
>   mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3
>   mdadm: 0.90 metadata does not support layouts for RAID0
>
> My question is whether the regression tests in the tarball are valid for mdadm-4.2?
>
>   -- Bruce Dubbs
>      linuxfromscratch.org
>
> Note: The kernel is version 5.15.12.

--
~Randy

2022-01-05 17:44:47

by Wols Lists

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Subject: Re: mdadm regression tests fail

Bear in mind raid superblock v0.9 is deprecated as in "if it breaks it
won't be fixed for you".

So I would skip this test, and if you're mentioning raid in the
handbook, tell people they need to use one of the v1.x formats.

(NB - you can always point them at the linux raid wiki.)

Cheers,
Wol

On 05/01/2022 17:12, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi.
> [adding linux-raid mailing list]
>
>
> On 1/4/22 10:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I am trying to document the mdadm-4.2 installation procedures for our book,
>> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/mdadm.html
>>
>> For testing, I am doing a simple:
>>
>>   make
>>   sudo ./test --keep-going --logdir=test-logs --save-logs
>>
>> But I get failures for about half the tests.
>>
>> Digging in a bit I just ran:
>>
>>  sudo ./test --tests=00raid0 --logdir=test-logs
>>
>> This is the first test that fails.  With some hacking, it appears that the first portion of this test that fails is:
>>
>>   mdadm -CR $md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 $dev0 $dev1 $dev2 $dev3
>>
>> This resolves to
>>
>>   mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3
>>
>> There is not a lot of error output in the test, so I manually ran:
>>
>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/mdtest0 count=20000 bs=1K
>>   losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/mdtest0
>>
>> For /dev/loop[0123]
>>
>> Then I ran
>>
>>   mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -e0.90 -l0 -n4 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3
>>   mdadm: 0.90 metadata does not support layouts for RAID0
>>
>> My question is whether the regression tests in the tarball are valid for mdadm-4.2?
>>
>>   -- Bruce Dubbs
>>      linuxfromscratch.org
>>
>> Note: The kernel is version 5.15.12.
>