usability: unplugged ethernet cable on an office desktop

[David Nielsen]

tir, 15 08 2006 kl. 14:22 -0400, skrev David Zeuthen:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:43 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> >  I was completely unable to perform
> > the some what simple task of setting up my two 400gig drives in a RAID,
> > let alone up LVM on top of that. Sure that could be added but we have
> > that in a perfectly fine form within Anaconda already.
> 
> The really funny thing is that I agree that Anaconda excels at this
> point. However, it's really way beyond me why this great functionality
> is restricted to install time only. Why can't I do RAID and LVM easily
> from the desktop to setup external drives?
> 
> (Sure, you can say system-config-lvm is one answer for LVM at least but
> that leaves RAID out of the question.)
> 
> That's why I started writing a Disk Utility for GNOME - the plan is for
> it to work much like Mac OS X's Disk Uility and also do RAID / LVM,
> here's a very early screenshot 
> 
>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-2.png
> 
> It uses HAL and PolicyKit so we'll also get out of that "run X11 apps as
> root" trap plus once we teach HAL about RAID / LVM we can add options to
> g-v-m such as
> 
>  [ ] Assemble RAID arrays when hotplugged
>  [ ] Set up Logical Volumes when hotplugged
> 
> etc. etc.

That looks awesome, it is also a testament to your lack of blogging
about cool stuff recently.

- A lesser cool David