From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 7:18:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D307337B419 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3OEG0Hx006038; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:16:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Joshua Goodall Cc: Miguel Mendez , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: graphical frontend for vinum In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:05:29 +1000." <20020424140529.GD86692@roughtrade.net> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:16:00 +0200 Message-ID: <6037.1019657760@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: >> Hi hackers, >> >> After gainning some knowledge of UI coding when doing thefish, I've >> thought of making a graphical tool for vinum. I've just installed >> 5.0-DP1 on my main box and took the opportunity to use vinum for the >> first time, and I must say, after having worked with Veritas VM, that I >> *love* it. So, what do you guys think. I was thinking, these Solaris >> guys have the graphical frontend for Veritas Volume Manager, why not us >> FreeBSD users for Vinum? So far, I find it to be an excellent product >> (thanks for making it Greg) and would be really pleased to make a >> GTK/ncurses frontend for it. Any wishes/suggestions/ideas for it? You might want to generalize things a bit and make a graphical GUI for GEOM instead. Eventually vinum will either be absorbed into GEOM as one class or (better) be implemented with a set of simple classes in GEOM. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message