tir, 15 08 2006 kl. 14:22 -0400, skrev David Zeuthen:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:43 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
I was completely unable to perform the some what simple task of setting up my two 400gig drives in a RAID, let alone up LVM on top of that. Sure that could be added but we have that in a perfectly fine form within Anaconda already.
The really funny thing is that I agree that Anaconda excels at this point. However, it's really way beyond me why this great functionality is restricted to install time only. Why can't I do RAID and LVM easily from the desktop to setup external drives?
(Sure, you can say system-config-lvm is one answer for LVM at least but that leaves RAID out of the question.)
That's why I started writing a Disk Utility for GNOME - the plan is for it to work much like Mac OS X's Disk Uility and also do RAID / LVM, here's a very early screenshot
http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-2.png
It uses HAL and PolicyKit so we'll also get out of that "run X11 apps as root" trap plus once we teach HAL about RAID / LVM we can add options to g-v-m such as
[ ] Assemble RAID arrays when hotplugged [ ] Set up Logical Volumes when hotplugged
etc. etc.
That looks awesome, it is also a testament to your lack of blogging about cool stuff recently.
- A lesser cool David