[1012] in Moira
Moira 4 - The Plan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu Sep 26 14:30:30 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:30:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: moiradev@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU
OK... the oracle moirad is basically `done', meaning it only needs
bugfixing and a better build system. The dcm and gen and
backup/restore programs will be `done' RSN (like, this week--all I
have to do is POSIXify a few more things so I can stop linking with
libucb). Then I need to hack on mrtest a bit (it doesn't deal with
arguments with "s in them, which makes it do the wrong thing when
running through logs sometimes).
Once that's done, we'll be able to start running the moira logs
through the test server. I haven't quite figured out the exact details
of this yet... probably adding something to the nightly script to grab
the correct amount of tail of /moira/moira.log and use ssh to send it
and the dcm outputs over to ttsp. (Can't use rcp or the dcm because of
the kerberos realm problems.) Then ttsp can run though the log, do a
set of dcms and an mrbackup itself, and compare the results. (Does
this seem like a reasonable testing plan?)
The plan is to have the new server go into production over Christmas
break (to give it a long period of low usage to break it in...)
In parallel with this testing, I need to
- finish porting all the rest of the stuff (dbck, regtape, etc)
- talk to Diane (or other people who know oracle) to figure out
how we should have installed oracle (if not with the default
settings) and how much memory we're going to want for the
new server.
- fix the build system (Imake is dead! Long live autoconf!)
- finish fixing the existing ingres dbck and check in those changes
- check in Dave's sis.dc and regtape changes
- do Greg Hudson's hesiod.dc fix
- (?) do mailhub.dc changes [re: recent moira-admin mail]
- merge the opssrc server sources into the mainline (and put the
moiradev server sources with the deadlocking code into a branch.)
- start my thesis! (Moira 5 - The Incrementals Strike Back)
Sometime after all that stuff I need to give a `Moira 3 -> Moira 4'
clue dump to everyone.
Jonathon needs to order the new server, once we know exactly what we
want.
-- Dan
