Improvements to gvinum and it's future

[Alexander Leidinger]

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.

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