Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:42:12 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Soeren Straarup <xride@x12.dk> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Howto gonfig geom? Message-ID: <11728.1075729332@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:32:48 %2B0100." <20040202142814.Q20673-100000@x12.dk>
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In message <20040202142814.Q20673-100000@x12.dk>, Soeren Straarup writes:
>
>Is it possible to do this:
>
>sysctl -b kern.geom.confdot > foo.dot
>cat foo.dot > /dev/geom.ctl
>
>With a possitive result?
No.
See the fdisk(8) or bsdlabel(8) programs for examples.
>In other words is it possible to write to geom.ctl in ascii?
>I have read that that is PHK's idea of configuring geom, but how is the
>real world?
the sysctls return a "state picture", ie, they describe the way things
are right now.
Configuration happens by telling what change to make ("add this",
"delete this", "change this"), not by giving a complete picture
("make it look like this").
>The reason for this question is that i have started to write a geom gui
>program to display the current status of geom and the version 42 should
>also be able to configuring geom via this gui.
This would happen by users clicking on things, maybe specifying extra
parameters and then shipping it down with a g_ctl() call.
We'll burn this bridge later :-)
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