Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:07:41 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Improvements to gvinum and it's future Message-ID: <20060901110741.szps9tr98gs484ow@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <ed6lfe$c35$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20060831121426.GA27060@stud.ntnu.no> <ed6lfe$c35$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Quoting Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> (from Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:42:10 +0200): > Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > >> Now, one could ask why I bother doing work on gvinum now, since we =20 >> have gmirror, >> gconcat, graid3 and all that. The reason is that gvinum is =20 >> important as a volume >> manager. Ivan Voras' work on gvirstor seems very promising as a =20 >> foundation of a >> new volume manager, and I've been planning to start working on =20 >> utilities (fvm, >> freebsd volume manager) that utilize these new geom classes instead =20 >> of having to >> maintain a separate RAID implementations, but that will take time, =20 >> and meanwhile > > I'm not the one with power-of-decision here, but I think this would be > very counter-productive. I'd suggest a different approach, of which I > had plans on actually doing, but got sidetracked - to build a userland > utility that would use existing GEOM classes in more-or-less opaque way > to the user (meaning: users don't have to be aware of actual kernel > classes to do the job). > > The idea was to build a curses terminal interface application May I direct your eyes to our now tool "sade" in -current? Bye, Alexander. --=20 If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? =09=09-- Lily Tomlin http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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