[RFC] Rewriting sade(8)
Andrey V. Elsukov
bu7cher at yandex.ru
Wed Apr 7 16:35:57 UTC 2010
Hi, All.
Some days ago i begun rewriting sade(8) to libgeom(3). Just for fun :-)
Today i have progress and you can see some screenshoots here:
http://butcher.heavennet.ru/sade/
What is done:
1. It's fully rewritten, but yes, i reuse some code from old sade.
2. I wrote small framework "customdlg" for creating custom dialogs (not yet fully finished, but works).
3. Now sade use libgeom for searching providers and it can use:
{"DISK", "disk device"},
{"MD", "memory backed virtual disk"},
{"ZFS::ZVOL", "ZFS volume"},
{"MIRROR", "GEOM based mirror (RAID1)"},
{"STRIPE", "GEOM based stripe (RAID0)"},
{"RAID3", "GEOM based RAID3 array"},
{"CONCAT", "GEOM based concatenated disk"},
{"ELI", "GEOM based encrypted disk"},
{"JOURNAL", "GEOM based journalled disk"},
{"MULTIPATH", "GEOM based disk with multiple path"}
4. Access to partitions based on geom_part.so library. I made some changes in geom_part.c and
sent it to Marcel, but currently didn't receive answer. Any way if these changes is not acceptable
i can rewrite it for using libgeom(3) only.
5. Undo/Commit features are based on internal implementation of geom class PART. I found there
two bugs:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2010-April/004018.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2010-April/039390.html
6. All "device" related code can be placed in shared library and in future can be reused in another
frontend...
7. New Partition Editor:
* partitions list now scrollable;
* all operations based on geom_part.so and similar to gpart(8);
* opening partition editor on empty provider opens new "Selech Partitioning Scheme" dialog
and create selected scheme;
* new add slice dialog;
* deleting slice from empty table destroys scheme;
Todo:
1. Refine customdlg.
2. Waiting for fixes in geom_part_mbr, geom_part and geom_part.so.
3. "Set Type and Label" dialog.
4. Better wording needed for messages and help. My english is bad :(
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Missing functions:
Creating filesystem and save them into /etc/fstab.
What new can be added:
1. Creating ZFS pools and datasets.
2. Creating GEOM-based raids.
Any comments are welcome.
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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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