After sitting around in a non-public subversion repo for far too long,
I've stuffed the latest blktool source code into a git repository. As
soon as it finished mirroring, it will be available at
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/blktool.git
The ostensible home page of blktool is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
What is it?
blktool is a multi-purpose tool that aims to a common place to
management common block concepts, across a wide variety of hardware.
For example, rather than having to learn and use different tools for ATA
or SCSI or I2O for the concept of "suspend", in the future one will
simply do "blktool /dev/foo suspend" and it will work, regardless of
what type of device it is.
I'm hoping that, as high level patterns emerge in storage, that blktool
can grow to meet these needs. For example, I would love to see blktool
grow support for the various hardware RAID controllers out there, so
that the admin need not learn a new raid management util for each
controller. James Bottomley's scsi-independent RAID class should help
in this endeavor, as it matures.
Jeff
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