Bccd-ng-jul-15-2009

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July 15, 2009 present: fitz, charlie, skylar, kevin, leandro

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Upcoming Event(s)

  • Indie - Innercity schools showoff little-fe on Monday
    • We'd be part of afternoon program
    • Have them test it on Friday beforehand (on local hardware)
    • stable networking needed.

Outstanding issues

  • Networking
    • Skylar suggests NAT on head node
      • Goal to alleviate routing issues
    • Leandro to create ticket about network issues.
    • How to reset networking on running system?
      • rm /etc/network; /bin/bccd-nic-setup
  • Note: Liberate takes everything from the running system
  • PXE
    • Needed for LittleFe/RackClusters
    • Not [currently] possible with aufs
  • toram
    • Should be "runinram" to match convention (set in BCCDv2)

Testing

  • Necessary testing?
    • NAT: easier with fixed IPs
    • LittleFe
    • Lone DHCP server vs. Multiple DHCP servers
      • Verify that interactions happen correctly (BCCDDHCP requests, etc)
  • building vs. testing a running livecd
    • build virtual/server, test on real hardware
    • many drivers not seen in the virtual env.
    • try to test as many scenarios as possible
    • what hardware do we have available to do testing?
      • old ACLs, new ACLs, littlefe
    • What people available for testing/bug-reporting? (Leandro: we are small team)
  • Need to be diligent about regression testing
    • Doc for testing in wiki

Development

  • Kevin to test debootstrap for build-livecd.pl as suggested by Skylar
  • devel on the same build host?
    • e.g. Screen environment to build remotely and as one has avail. time
  • Process for merging changes into main repo?
    • Keep separate branches (e.g. for different features)
    • Test build(s) before committing anything at all
    • Test branch before merging to trunk
  • edugrid? gets bogged down frequently
    • Fix to setup alternate machine
      • Was a0/backup. Now something else
      • details of move unclear
      • move external stuff (bccd.net, edu-grid) over to 4G frame
      • move everything to virtual (VBox?)
      • Kevin: virtual env. good for those with little time/money
      • Charlie: virtual much slower than native [server] hardware
  • 700M or so RAM needed to build
  • Documentation for startdhcp needs to be updated
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