graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Miguel Mendez
Hi hackers, After gainning some knowledge of UI coding when doing thefish, I've thought of making a graphical tool for vinum. I've just installed 5.0-DP1 on my main box and took the opportunity to use vinum for the first time, and I must say, after having worked with Veritas VM, that I *love* it.

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Joshua Goodall
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Hi hackers, > > After gainning some knowledge of UI coding when doing thefish, I've > thought of making a graphical tool for vinum. I've just installed > 5.0-DP1 on my main box and took the opportunity to use vinum for the > first t

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Miguel Mendez
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, backo

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: >> Hi hackers, >> >> After gainning some knowledge of UI coding when doing thefish, I've >> thought of making a graphical tool for vinum. I've just installed >> 5.0-DP1 on my main box and took the opportunity to use vinum for the >>

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miguel Mendez writes: >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. They did that in 1994... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilo

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:16:00PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Hi, > You might want to generalize things a bit and make a graphical GUI > for GEOM instead. Eventually vinum will either be absorbed into > GEOM as one class or (better) be implemented with a set of simple > classes in GEOM. E

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread utsl
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 actua

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: >So far people have liked The Fish (much more than I have initially hoped >btw). I think having a nice interface for vinum would be nice. This sounds like a great idea to me. Both thefish and any future vinum configuration tools sound like things that w

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread utsl
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:26:22PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:16:00PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Hi, > > > You might want to generalize things a bit and make a graphical GUI > > for GEOM instead. Eventually vinum will either be absorbed into > > GEOM as on

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Excellent idea Poul, I'm currently gathering info on GEOM and I think >> that's the way to go. > >Does GEOM provide a better interface than DIOCGDINFO and DIOCGSLICEINFO? >I recently wrote a program to list all the slices and partitions

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 at 12:06:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread utsl
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:21:51AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 at 12:06:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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

Re: graphical frontend for vinum (The Name Game)

2002-04-24 Thread Andy Sporner
Hi, Some time ago you were looking for a name for "the Fish". Since your work now is including VINUM, perhaps a name would be better "xsysconfig" or "xsysadm" Since the Vinum stuff follows a similar paradyme as I had to solve with my cluster failover stuff. You might want to look at my UI.