On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 12/07/2011 10:20 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I would like to introduce to you a new tool called System Storage > > Manager (ssm). It is supposed to provide easy to use command line > > interface to manage your storage using various technologies like > > lvm, btrfs, encrypted volumes and possibly more. > > > > Background > > ---------- > > > > In more sophisticated enterprise storage environments, management with > > Device Mapper (dm), Logical Volume Manager (LVM), or Multiple Devices > > (md) is becoming increasingly more difficult. With file systems added > > to the mix, the number of tools needed to configure and manage storage > > has grown so large that it is simply not user friendly. With so many > > options for a system administrator to consider, the opportunity for > > errors and problems is large. > > This seems like a worthwhile project given the overlap > in functionality from the various commands. > It echoes some of the functionality provided by libguestfs > for VM images I think. > > > The btrfs administration tools have shown us that storage management can > > be simplified, and we are working to bring that ease of use to Linux > > filesystems in general. > > > > > > You can also find some more information in my presentation from LinuxCon > > Prague this year: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/lczerner/files/lczerner_fsm.pdf > > This had the name 'fsm'. Yes I had to change it, since fsm implies file system, but it is not only about file systems. > I do think 'ssm' is better, however I would drop the '.py' from Already done. But I can see that it is still present in the README file. Will fix it, tanks. > the command name. This is incidental and restrictive going forward. > Note I checked the debian and freebsd man pages and 'ssm' is available. I could not find it on http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi but I know there is a project called ssm: ssm.i686 : Macromolecular coordinate superposition library but my project is called System Storage Manager and ssm is just the executable. I could not find any binary with the same name (within Fedora), not sure if that will be a problem... > > > The code is still under development and no release has been made yet, but > > I would like to share with you what I have done so far, since the > > progress has been a bit slower than I have previously expected. The > > project lives on the sf.net : > > > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/storagemanager/ > > This is a much cleaner landing page: > http://sourceforge.net/p/storagemanager/home/Home/ > > cheers, > Pádraig. > Thanks for comments! -Lukas
