From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754863Ab1LGK4y (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2011 05:56:54 -0500 Received: from mail2.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.44]:46164 "EHLO mail2.vodafone.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751973Ab1LGK4x (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2011 05:56:53 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMBAHxF305tTAz3/2dsb2JhbAAMN61JAQEBAgEBMgFGBQsLDQEKCRYPCQMCAQIBRQYNAQcBAYgDCLVjizQEmlWMOQ Message-ID: <4EDF4672.9080705@draigBrady.com> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:56:50 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110816 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lukas Czerner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-lvm@redhat.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Ric Wheeler Subject: Re: System Storage Manager References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/07/2011 10:20 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote: > Hello everyone, > > 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. > > Background > ---------- > > In more sophisticated enterprise storage environments, management with > 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 storage > 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. > > > You can also find some more information in my presentation from LinuxCon > Prague this year: > > 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 : > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/storagemanager/ This is a much cleaner landing page: http://sourceforge.net/p/storagemanager/home/Home/ cheers, Pádraig.