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Date:      Fri, 02 Mar 2001 21:11:09 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Labeling Vinum partitions in the sysinstall(8) [patch]
Message-ID:  <3A9FF04D.1E4ABDF9@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.010302092831.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:

> On 02-Mar-01 Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm currently creating a Vinum(4) configuration wizard for sysinstall(8),
> > which
> > would simplify Vinum configuration procedure for the vinum newbies. So far I
> > finished a patch that allows create vinum partitions using sysinstall's
> > disklabel editor and would like to commit it. Please review attached patches.
>
> Heh, I wrote http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sysinstall.vinum.patch
> probably a year ago now, but because it only changes the disklabel editor and
> doesn't add a full vinum configurator the patch was rejected. :-/  Hopefully
> you will have better luck than I did...

I hope so, because it greatly simplifies the task even without a full vinum
configurator (as I said I'm working on it as well). Yeah, I know that disklabel(8)
is cool, but it is not very intuitive and easy to use tool, especially for
GUI-pampered win32 converts.

-Maxim


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