On Sep 5, 2014 5:05 AM, "Vratislav Podzimek" <vpodzime@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Good news, everyone! We (me and CC'd Vojtech Trefny) would like to
> introduce you the next generation tool for storage management -- the
> **blivet-gui** tool [1]_. It is a GUI tool based on the blivet python
> library (originally Anaconda's storage management and configuration
> tool) inspired by GParted and other storage management tools. Why not
> use GParted you ask? The reason we came up with blivet-gui is that
> none of the existing storage management tools supports all storage
> technologies supported in modern Linux distributions. Anaconda does
> support them all so it's only logical to take Anaconda's storage
> backend, combine it with a nice, intuitive and in general
> user-friendly frontend and build a standalone application for storage
> management.
>
> The GUI of blivet-gui is heavily based on GParted's UI to minimize the
> surprise which is very important in such a critical task as storage
> management is. If you know how to work with GParted, you'll almost
> instantly know how to work with blivet-gui. All requested changes are
> just enqueued first and then processed/committed to disk by the
> "Apply" button just like in GParted. However, with blivet-gui those
> actions may be something like the following sequence:
>
> create 10GB partition sda1, create a LUKS device on top of it and use
> the LUKS device as a PV for a VG called ``dataVG`` with a single LV
> ``data`` occupying half of the VG space and with XFS on top of the LV,
>
> not only partitioning and file system operations like GParted does.
>
> Having troubles writing partitioning part of a kickstart file for
> automated installation? Run blivet-gui with the ``--kickstart`` option
> and export the partitioning portion of a kickstart file instead of
> committing changes to disk.
>
> On top of the features described above, the blivet-gui is embedable so
> any application using any toolkit with the XEmbed protocol support
> (Gtk, Qt,...) may use blivet-gui as a part of its GUI.
>
> The application only started its history few months ago, is under
> heavy development now and will get new features in the next months
> (RAID, BTRFS), but even now it is a very nice and useful tool.
>
> Suggestions, feature requests, bug reports and of course PATCHES ARE
> WELCOME! It is quite a simple Gtk application written in Python which
> makes it an easy target for everybody who misses something in the
> other storage management tools. Don't like Gtk? Text mode would be
> really, really useful too! Don't feel like adding new features and
> diving deep in blivet to implement them? The code always needs
> refactorization and cleanup!
>
> I think everybody can submit patches for blivet-gui and I'm really
> looking forward to see the hundreds of patches from all those people
> that hate every storage management GUIs and tools that have every
> existed. Let's spend some time on pushing the Linux storage management
> further instead of just complaining!
>
> .. [1] http://blog.vojtechtrefny.cz/blivet-gui
>
> P.S. Do you know about any other mailing lists or individuals that may
> be interested in this announcement? Feel free to forward the message and
> spread the word!
>
This looks excellent, thank you. I look forward to the BTRFS integration, let me know if you have questions on that front. Super excited to see something non-gnome specific. Thanks,
Josef
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