From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:27:47 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?= Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM X front end Message-ID: <20010310142747.A1365@dardhal.mired.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from ardy@rdb.linux-help.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:30:48PM -0500 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Friday, 09 March 2001, at 19:30:48 -0500, ardy@rdb.linux-help.org wrote: > Is there any other X front ends for LVM maintenance other than the one on > freshmeat.net? > > As an aside, I emailed the maintainer of lvm-viewer, he hasn't updated the > code since last year, and told me he had no time for further development. > It'd be a shame to have that code go stale, I don't code so I couldn't > offer to take it over. > This is a recurring idea that comes to my mind very often: having a reasonably good user interface on top on lvm tools would be nice. But this should be a must, of course. Moreover, last Friday I saw the graphical user interface that Veritas Volume Managar ships on Enterprise and higher-priced SCO Unixware licences. The UI seemed (IMHO) hardly useful, and taking into account that volume mangement is not precisely that kind of thing newbies tend to do, command line utilities are the best choice for now. I also considered making a GUI frontend, but programming is not my best skill, and available time is not on excess. Maybe this kind of frontends is what distro-makers should do, ease the learning curve for newbies. The community provides the functionality, and distro-makers provide the GUI. There have plenty of GTK/Qt programmers, project management skills and money, and a product to sell, which could gain market share if they focused on this kind of things (apart from services, this is what RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake and so on should do, IMHO). Maybe what would be most interesting is a frontend and/or script to allow simultaneous resizing of the filesystem and the underlying LV. Or there is already such a program ? Greetings, and thank you all for this great piece of software called LVM. -- Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian GNU/Linux Potato (P166 64 MB RAM) jdomingo EN internautas PUNTO org => � Spam ? Atente a las consecuencias jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk