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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:16:00 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
Cc:        Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: graphical frontend for vinum 
Message-ID:  <6037.1019657760@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:05:29 %2B1000." <20020424140529.GD86692@roughtrade.net> 

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>On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote:
>> Hi hackers,
>> 
>> After gainning some knowledge of UI coding when doing thefish, I've
>> thought of making a graphical tool for vinum. I've just installed
>> 5.0-DP1 on my main box and took the opportunity to use vinum for the
>> first time, and I must say, after having worked with Veritas VM, that I
>> *love* it. So, what do you guys think. I was thinking, these Solaris
>> guys have the graphical frontend for Veritas Volume Manager, why not us
>> FreeBSD users for Vinum? So far, I find it to be an excellent product
>> (thanks for making it Greg) and would be really pleased to make a
>> GTK/ncurses frontend for it. Any wishes/suggestions/ideas for it?

You might want to generalize things a bit and make a graphical GUI
for GEOM instead.  Eventually vinum will either be absorbed into
GEOM as one class or (better) be implemented with a set of simple
classes in GEOM.

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