From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 9: 8:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from quic.net (romulus.quic.net [216.23.27.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFF4B37B49C for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31770 invoked by uid 1032); 24 Apr 2002 16:06:39 -0000 From: utsl@quic.net Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:06:39 -0400 To: Miguel Mendez Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical frontend for vinum Message-ID: <20020424160639.GB30203@quic.net> References: <20020424155218.B71155@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020424140529.GD86692@roughtrade.net> <20020424161444.A71321@energyhq.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020424161444.A71321@energyhq.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:14:44PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:29AM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > However you present the UI, when it comes to making changes, please > > have it queue up the actual commands which are then visible to the > > sysadmin for approval, backout, single-stepping, recording etc. > > Way too many graphical management tools have been corrupted by the > > microsoft control panel &c. > > Well, if you've used recent versions of the veritas volume manager > fronted you'll notice that they give the cli command output in a window, > that's what I intend to do. You might want to look at EVMS on Linux. They have a few good ideas, like building a library and API underneath the user interfaces. From what I can see, that project has some nice underlying concepts, but the user interfaces need to evolve for a few years. (Worst CLI ever, and the GUI is very confusing.) I wonder if that API could interface with vinum? It would be very nice to have a cross-platform library interface to operate on disk volumes. For that, it might even be worth improving the EVMS API, rather than starting from scratch. ---Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message