On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 11:52 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 15:55 +0200, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:04 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > 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? > > > > > > Actually my question is "why not gnome-disk-utility?" :) > > Because it doesn't work well with LVM, RAID, BTRFS and a combination of > > them. > > Leaving LVM out was an explicit decision, because of all the system > integration problems with LVM. It works fine with RAID No, it doesn't: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/commit/?id=820e2d3d325aef3574e207a5df73e7480ed41dda the RAID support was entirely removed with that commit. > and btrfs as far > as I know. Do you have any concrete complaints about the RAID or btrfs > support in gnome-disk-utility ? So far as btrfs goes - well, I wouldn't say complaints, but it's not at all in the same capability league as blivet. I just booted a current F21 nightly (so, current gnome-disks code) and the extent of its ability to create new btrfs filesystems seems to be 'you can format a partition, pick "Custom" as the "Type", and set it to btrfs'. That's fine so far as it goes, but it's a long way from really 'supporting' btrfs. btrfs isn't a simple filesystem like FAT or NTFS or ext or xfs. It's more of an all-singing, all-dancing combined filesystem/volume management/redundancy/kitchen sink arrangement. blivet actually understands all of this, it really *supports* btrfs: you can create btrfs volumes that span multiple disks, configure a lot of their attributes, and create and configure subvolumes within the volumes. Unless I'm missing something, gnome-disks does none of that. Honestly I don't see that gnome-disks and blivet-gui would be entirely playing in the same sandbox. It might be viable to think of them as GNOME's 'Network' control panel applet vs. nm-connection-editor, or something along those lines? But probably with even more of a difference. I like GNOME Disks, it's a great handy toolbox for doing simple manipulation of drives, but I'm not sure it quite fits the same mental box as blivet-gui would, for me. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
