On Sep 5, 2014 5:05 AM, "Vratislav Podzimek" <vpodz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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? The reason we came up with blivet-gui is that > none of the existing storage management tools supports all storage > technologies supported in modern Linux distributions. Anaconda does > support them all so it's only logical to take Anaconda's storage > backend, combine it with a nice, intuitive and in general > user-friendly frontend and build a standalone application for storage > management. > > The GUI of blivet-gui is heavily based on GParted's UI to minimize the > surprise which is very important in such a critical task as storage > management is. If you know how to work with GParted, you'll almost > instantly know how to work with blivet-gui. All requested changes are > just enqueued first and then processed/committed to disk by the > "Apply" button just like in GParted. However, with blivet-gui those > actions may be something like the following sequence: > > create 10GB partition sda1, create a LUKS device on top of it and use > the LUKS device as a PV for a VG called ``dataVG`` with a single LV > ``data`` occupying half of the VG space and with XFS on top of the LV, > > not only partitioning and file system operations like GParted does. > > Having troubles writing partitioning part of a kickstart file for > automated installation? Run blivet-gui with the ``--kickstart`` option > and export the partitioning portion of a kickstart file instead of > committing changes to disk. > > On top of the features described above, the blivet-gui is embedable so > any application using any toolkit with the XEmbed protocol support > (Gtk, Qt,...) may use blivet-gui as a part of its GUI. > > The application only started its history few months ago, is under > heavy development now and will get new features in the next months > (RAID, BTRFS), but even now it is a very nice and useful tool. > > Suggestions, feature requests, bug reports and of course PATCHES ARE > WELCOME! It is quite a simple Gtk application written in Python which > makes it an easy target for everybody who misses something in the > other storage management tools. Don't like Gtk? Text mode would be > really, really useful too! Don't feel like adding new features and > diving deep in blivet to implement them? The code always needs > refactorization and cleanup! > > I think everybody can submit patches for blivet-gui and I'm really > looking forward to see the hundreds of patches from all those people > that hate every storage management GUIs and tools that have every > existed. Let's spend some time on pushing the Linux storage management > further instead of just complaining! > > .. [1] http://blog.vojtechtrefny.cz/blivet-gui > > P.S. Do you know about any other mailing lists or individuals that may > be interested in this announcement? Feel free to forward the message and > spread the word! >
This looks excellent, thank you. I look forward to the BTRFS integration, let me know if you have questions on that front. Super excited to see something non-gnome specific. Thanks, Josef
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