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 -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
