From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 3 1:10:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA99937B71A; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 01:10:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Z8Ec-0000DY-00; Sat, 03 Mar 2001 02:21:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3AA0B7B2.F18CEC97@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 02:21:54 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: John Baldwin , current@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Labeling Vinum partitions in the sysinstall(8) [patch] References: <3A9FF04D.1E4ABDF9@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > On 02-Mar-01 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'm currently creating a Vinum(4) configuration wizard for sysinstall(8), > > > which > > > would simplify Vinum configuration procedure for the vinum newbies. So far I > > > finished a patch that allows create vinum partitions using sysinstall's > > > disklabel editor and would like to commit it. Please review attached patches. > > > > Heh, I wrote http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sysinstall.vinum.patch > > probably a year ago now, but because it only changes the disklabel editor and > > doesn't add a full vinum configurator the patch was rejected. :-/ Hopefully > > you will have better luck than I did... > > I hope so, because it greatly simplifies the task even without a full vinum > configurator (as I said I'm working on it as well). Yeah, I know that disklabel(8) > is cool, but it is not very intuitive and easy to use tool, especially for > GUI-pampered win32 converts. So, we're impatiently awaiting your nice GUI-ish vinum configurator in Tcl/Tk, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, or whatever. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message