Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:18:54 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@stud.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improvements to gvinum and it's future Message-ID: <20060901014854.GF25190@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060831121426.GA27060@stud.ntnu.no> References: <20060831121426.GA27060@stud.ntnu.no>
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--Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 31 August 2006 at 14:14:26 +0200, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working this summer to improve gvinum, and add features from old vinum > into the geom version of vinum. Lukas Ertl have done a fantastic amount of work > on it (and Chris Jones) since it started, but it's not complete. So far, I've > completed many of the missing commands such as attach/detach, setstate stop, and > other commands (The manpage lists most of them). I've also implemented basic > functionality of drivegroups, which provides grouping of drives with the same > configuration, and sort of acts as a drivepool that abstract drives further, and > it can simplify volume management for larger systems. This all sounds very good. > However, although many of these features maybe needs more testing, > some of them also belongs in HEAD, but since I am not a committer, I > need someone to help me get these changes into the tree. The reason > for this is largely that le@ has not been visible for a couple of > months, so the one person actually maintaining gvinum is not > available. So therefore I ask for someone else to help me with this. OK, I'll do what I can. We can take this offline, I think. > My first set of patches are available in PR 99183, 99186 and more is > coming from the perforce repository as soon as I'm able to split > them up. The web site is currently so broken that I don't use it. Also, freefall has just been rebooted, and for some reason Emacs is missing, so I can't look at the files there either. Could you send me the patches, please? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE95GGIubykFB6QiMRAmW8AJwJMRHpcRlyi278qMpXiG5bHoBeugCfQRrf XHHcZNY4vQ8bhw+By0qYZAI= =1+bC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pgaa2uWPnPrfixyx--
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