Quoting Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_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 >> have gmirror, >> gconcat, graid3 and all that. The reason is that gvinum is >> important as a volume >> manager. Ivan Voras' work on gvirstor seems very promising as a >> foundation of a >> new volume manager, and I've been planning to start working on >> utilities (fvm, >> freebsd volume manager) that utilize these new geom classes instead >> of having to >> maintain a separate RAID implementations, but that will take time, >> 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. -- If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? -- Lily Tomlin http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137Received on Fri Sep 01 2006 - 17:26:46 UTC
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