From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= Subject: Re: System Storage Manager Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:56:50 +0000 Message-ID: <4EDF4672.9080705@draigBrady.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-lvm@redhat.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Ric Wheeler To: Lukas Czerner Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: On 12/07/2011 10:20 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote: > Hello everyone, >=20 > 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. >=20 > Background > ---------- >=20 > In more sophisticated enterprise storage environments, management wit= h > 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 storag= e > 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. >=20 >=20 > You can also find some more information in my presentation from Linux= Con > Prague this year: >=20 > http://people.redhat.com/lczerner/files/lczerner_fsm.pdf This had the name 'fsm'. I do think 'ssm' is better, however I would drop the '.py' from the command name. This is incidental and restrictive going forward. Note I checked the debian and freebsd man pages and 'ssm' is available. > 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 : >=20 > https://sourceforge.net/projects/storagemanager/ This is a much cleaner landing page: http://sourceforge.net/p/storagemanager/home/Home/ cheers, P=E1draig.