-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sounds good to me. I can't think of a better term than "failedtest". So, I'd say just go with that.
Josh On Tuesday March 31, 2009, Andy Kurth wrote: > This relates to Aaron's work on VCL-122 where he updated the code to not > modify the log table for reload reservations. > > There are cases where log.ending may get set to failed even though the > reservation didn't really fail for an end user using a production image. > If a reservation fails and the image revision is not set to production, I > propose not setting log.ending to failed. > > I'm guessing a fair amount of failures result from someone saving an image > which has been broken by the changes he/she made. This may occur if the > image admin is experimenting or testing a new image. That same image admin > then makes multiple reservations for the broken revision, increasing the > failure count, thus making VCL's reliability % lower than it is in reality. > > I don't think we should simply bypass updating the log table for such > reservations. It's useful to retain this data. How about adding a new > value to log.ending for failed experimental reservations. I can't really > think of a good, short value. Maybe something like "failedtest"? > > Another case where log.ending may get set to failed even though it's known > to be an experimental/test reservation is when an image admin creates a new > image (revision 0) and the image hasn't been assigned to any groups yet. > We can detect this if an image only belongs to the > newimages-<username>-<userid> group. I'd propose also setting log.ending to > something like "failedtest" if a reservation fails under these conditions. > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > Andy - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson Systems Programmer Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) North Carolina State University josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu 919-515-5323 my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ0jIcV/LQcNdtPQMRAsZAAJwMsRFtXaEHGw1hL3Hiq4KA9PRinQCeOeRe /0n6iEhDeSqg6oMD1yTizvU= =LsYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
