First alpha version of Inquisitor v3.1 released
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After more than 8 months, Inquisitor team presented first public alpha release on brand new Inquisitor v3.1 Live CD - a Live CD dedicated to doing hardware stress tests and benchmarking in a clean, controlled environment. This is experimental build made with Debian package base.
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Overview of new features in this Live CD build over 3.0 platform release:
- Lots of improvements in Live CD: profiles at Live CD are also XML-based now, so they can be easily replaced/interchanged. Profiles can include each other. Live CD interface received major facelift to allow more control over testing process (including, for example, infinite testing).
- Throughout support for new client platform: Debian (including builds of Enterprise and Live CD versions).
- New class of modules – “software detects” are introduced. These modules detect and record versions and build options of software used for future reference.
- Lots of new tests: array-configurator, bonnie++ version 0.2, boot_from_image, db_comparison_fast, dd, hdd-passthrough version 0.3, iozone, mencoder_hdd, mencoder_memory, partimage, stress-compress, torrent-upload.
- New hardware detects: Infiniband, BBU.
- New monitorings: loadavg.
Lots of stability fixes and bug fixes were applied:
- This release uses new version of Einarc (one-that-would-be-1.4) to manage hardware and software RAIDs on storage devices.
- Heavily improved new hdd-badblocks utility.
- Fixed many issues with XML indentation and compliance on client and server sides.
- Many user interface and general outlook improvements.
API extensions:
- A hook that allows unconditional execution of code after test competion (like “finally”).
- Enhanced helper API for tests and detects in client’s API.
- Firmware test heavily uses hardware detects.
- Benchmarks can publish measurement units.
- Ability to change default filesystem used in many tests.
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