From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 19:39:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6865D16A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:39:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F255743D46 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:39:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j84JdCs9066274 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:39:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <431B4D6C.6040209@centtech.com> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:39:24 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050904 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: GEOM viewer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:39:14 -0000 I've been thinking how nice it would be to have a GEOM viewer - which could show in a graphical window reads/writes (nearly real-time) to a GEOM provider. Here are my questions: 1) Is anyone already working on this, or does one already exist? 2) Is this possible? 3) Am I a crazy person for thinking it would be nice? I'm a complete newbie when it comes to programming C, but I'm looking for a challenging project that I can throw my head around and dive in - I'd like to learn more about FreeBSD, kernels, GEOM, and filesystems, so I thought this might be a good project. Other project ideas are also welcome. I'm also willing to do FreeBSD systems grunt work in trade for the opportunity to shadow a real developer. :) I just want to learn at this point. Thanks, Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------