Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:06:39 -0400 From: utsl@quic.net To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical frontend for vinum Message-ID: <20020424160639.GB30203@quic.net> In-Reply-To: <20020424161444.A71321@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <20020424155218.B71155@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020424140529.GD86692@roughtrade.net> <20020424161444.A71321@energyhq.homeip.net>
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:14:44PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:29AM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > However you present the UI, when it comes to making changes, please > > have it queue up the actual commands which are then visible to the > > sysadmin for approval, backout, single-stepping, recording etc. > > Way too many graphical management tools have been corrupted by the > > microsoft control panel &c. > > Well, if you've used recent versions of the veritas volume manager > fronted you'll notice that they give the cli command output in a window, > that's what I intend to do. You might want to look at EVMS on Linux. They have a few good ideas, like building a library and API underneath the user interfaces. From what I can see, that project has some nice underlying concepts, but the user interfaces need to evolve for a few years. (Worst CLI ever, and the GUI is very confusing.) I wonder if that API could interface with vinum? It would be very nice to have a cross-platform library interface to operate on disk volumes. For that, it might even be worth improving the EVMS API, rather than starting from scratch. ---Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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