On 01/11/17 11:52, Shaohua Li wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:49:04AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Jes Sorensen wrote: >>> I am pleased to announce the availability of >>> mdadm version 4.0 >>> >>> It is available at the usual places: >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ >>> and via git at >>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git >>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/ >>> >>> The update in major version number primarily indicates this is a >>> release by it's new maintainer. In addition it contains a large number >>> of fixes in particular for IMSM RAID and clustered RAID support. In >>> addition this release includes support for IMSM 4k sector drives, >>> failfast and better documentation for journaled RAID. >> >> Thank you for the new release. Unfortunately I get 9 failures running the >> test suite: >> >> tests/00raid1... FAILED >> tests/07autoassemble... FAILED >> tests/07changelevels... FAILED >> tests/07revert-grow... FAILED >> tests/07revert-inplace... FAILED >> tests/07testreshape5... FAILED >> tests/10ddf-fail-twice... FAILED >> tests/20raid5journal... FAILED >> tests/10ddf-incremental-wrong-order... FAILED > > Yep, several tests usually fail. It appears some checks aren't always good. > At > least the 'check' function for reshape/resync isn't reliable in my test, I saw > 07changelevelintr fails frequently.
That is my experience as well - some of them are affected by the kernel version too. We probably need to look into making them more reliable. I am also not sure how reliable the DDF tests are on systems without DDF support. Cheers, Jes
