On Thursday 18 January 2007 13:02, James Harper wrote: > > The plan is to run the regresssion scripts each night and have the > > results available on the website. Such regression tests go a long > > way towards keep the product reliable and stable. Problems are > > quickly highlighted. At present, my time is short, so if anyone > > wants to help out in designing and putting together the automation of > > the regressions scripts, please get in touch. Ideally, we could do > > this on multiple platforms and centralizing the results. > > Are you aware of any 'virtual tape drive' implementations that run under > Linux? I think it's on the roadmap for IET (iSCSI Enterprise Target), > but still vapourware at this stage, although I think I just saw a patch > to implement a virtual DVD burner. It would be really nice to be able to > run regression tests on a (virtual) tape drive, and to be able to > simulate all sorts of failure modes to make sure they are handled > gracefully.
Well, disk-changer is a sort of virtual autochanger that works on disk. It does test the autochanger functionality quite well, but at the low level, the I/O interface is to file, so it does not test the exact read/write part of a tape drive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
