From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 20 18:37:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118D416A401 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:37:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC71613C468 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:37:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A5DAA7.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.218.167]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CC12E190; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:46:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5395B482A; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:37:25 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:37:24 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Soeren Straarup Message-ID: <20070120193724.2907738d@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20070120171504.GD60202@x12.dk> References: <20070119201935.GA60202@x12.dk> <20070120132444.50c688b7@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20070120171504.GD60202@x12.dk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i686-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.864, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:16:14 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: About sade (was Re: Where to start?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:37:37 -0000 Quoting Soeren Straarup (Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:15:04 +0100): > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 01:24:44PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Quoting Soeren Straarup (Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:19:35 +0100): > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I'm looking for a project. > > > Something that would actually be used. > > > > > > Preferely something with kernel and geom. > > > > > > I have looked over the project page, but not sure where to start. > > > > How hard is your requirement that it has to be in the kernel? If it is > > not very strong: you could extend sade(8) to handle GEOM stuff. > > How should the g* stuff be included? like extracting code from the individual > g* control programs and placed in sade? I could look at doing that. I don't know that much about the possibilities the GEOM API offers. Ideally it should be able to list the existing GEOM providers and offer to add new or remove configured ones. It should also be able to newfs on GEOM providers. This may result in the renaming of the items in the initial menu (it doesn't make sense to call it "fdisk" when you are able to do more than the fdisk stuff), or maybe in merging the two parts. A first step would be to enhance the fdisk part and maybe rename the two items to "configure" and "format" or something better. If you are willing to have a look at this I'm willing to review the UI/usability part and suggest improvements. For the GEOM related stuff I would have to direct you to the people which already did a lot of work there (e.g. pjd/phk), but maybe I'm able to handle minor stuff there too. Bye, Alexander. -- Mulder: Scully, should we be picking out china patterns, or what? "The X-Files: Small Potatoes" http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137