StorageUnificationTool
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<outline text="A easy-to-use graphical tool that can manage storage devices and pools, and file systems"/> | <outline text="A easy-to-use graphical tool that can manage storage devices and pools, and file systems"/> | ||
<outline text="Includes a wizard (like Roxio or Toast) that can start different applications depending on what is to be accomplished"/> | <outline text="Includes a wizard (like Roxio or Toast) that can start different applications depending on what is to be accomplished"/> | ||
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<outline text="Make it easy to export and secure data"/> | <outline text="Make it easy to export and secure data"/> | ||
<outline text="Provide a framework for thinking about and documenting data management"/> | <outline text="Provide a framework for thinking about and documenting data management"/> | ||
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- | + | == use cases == | |
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<outline text="Handles storage devices"> | <outline text="Handles storage devices"> | ||
<outline text="system and device health"/> | <outline text="system and device health"/> | ||
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<outline text="restore and disaster recovery"/> | <outline text="restore and disaster recovery"/> | ||
</outline> | </outline> | ||
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<outline text="star, cpio, rsync"/> | <outline text="star, cpio, rsync"/> | ||
<outline text="Smit on AIX"/> | <outline text="Smit on AIX"/> | ||
<outline text="zpool and zfs on Solaris"/> | <outline text="zpool and zfs on Solaris"/> | ||
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<outline text="Need a good name for it (branding!)"/> | <outline text="Need a good name for it (branding!)"/> | ||
<outline text="Must tie together the disparate, separately maintained, and undocumented masses of storage utilities that exist on Linux"/> | <outline text="Must tie together the disparate, separately maintained, and undocumented masses of storage utilities that exist on Linux"/> | ||
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<outline text="Do we want some kind of data management (replication/migration/backup/mirroring)?"/> | <outline text="Do we want some kind of data management (replication/migration/backup/mirroring)?"/> | ||
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<outline text="Need to look at tools for constructing nice GUIs on Linux"> | <outline text="Need to look at tools for constructing nice GUIs on Linux"> | ||
<outline text="Ask on #nc?"/> | <outline text="Ask on #nc?"/> | ||
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<outline text="Build a GUI for starting other applications"/> | <outline text="Build a GUI for starting other applications"/> | ||
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<outline text="Start simple -- admin /etc/fstab or run smartctl"/> | <outline text="Start simple -- admin /etc/fstab or run smartctl"/> | ||
<outline text="Need place to collect ideas publicly"> | <outline text="Need place to collect ideas publicly"> | ||
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</outline> | </outline> | ||
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== free-form notes == | == free-form notes == |
Revision as of 01:01, 16 August 2007
Contents |
description
<outline text="A easy-to-use graphical tool that can manage storage devices and pools, and file systems"/> <outline text="Includes a wizard (like Roxio or Toast) that can start different applications depending on what is to be accomplished"/> <outline text="Make it easy to create, manage, and back up very large data storage pools"/> <outline text="Make it easy to export and secure data"/> <outline text="Provide a framework for thinking about and documenting data management"/>
use cases
<outline text="Handles storage devices"> <outline text="system and device health"/> <outline text="automatic and manual setting of I/O parameters"/> <outline text="installation, configuration, transport setup"/> <outline text="device error reporting and analysis"/> </outline> <outline text="Handles storage pools"> <outline text="administers RAID volumes and LVs"/> <outline text="set up hot remote pools"/> </outline> <outline text="Handles file systems"> <outline text="creation"/> <outline text="mounting"/> <outline text="tuning"/> <outline text="resizing"/> <outline text="deletion"/> </outline> <outline text="Handles NFS administration"> <outline text="client: automated server discovery, "/> <outline text="client: autofs configuration"/> <outline text="server: automatic export of file systems"/> </outline> <outline text="Handles data management"> <outline text="set up automated storage hierarchies"/> <outline text="one-time or periodic data replication"/> <outline text="one-time or periodic backup"/> <outline text="restore and disaster recovery"/> </outline>
other examples
<outline text="star, cpio, rsync"/> <outline text="Smit on AIX"/> <outline text="zpool and zfs on Solaris"/>
requirements
<outline text="Need a good name for it (branding!)"/> <outline text="Must tie together the disparate, separately maintained, and undocumented masses of storage utilities that exist on Linux"/> <outline text="And provide new tools that don't already exist"/> <outline text="Emulates the nice model provided by zpool/zfs"/> <outline text="Management"> <outline text="Do we want some kind of permanent storage management (disk/CF/optical/tape)? Device maintenance? Ways to drive smartctl, hdparm, or other testing?"/> <outline text="Do we want some kind of storage pool management (manage LVs, manage pools [for fs's that understand them]?"/> <outline text="Do we want some kind of file system management (create, check, remove, expand)? Managing /etc/fstab, /etc/exports, and the automounters? Disk usage analyzer (boabab)?"/> <outline text="Do we want some kind of data management (replication/migration/backup/mirroring)?"/> </outline>
major architecture
<outline text="Need to look at tools for constructing nice GUIs on Linux"> <outline text="Ask on #nc?"/> <outline text="Some web searching"/> <outline text="Look at Python web site: again, Python might be best to prototype"> <outline text="Python seems to have plenty of options"/> </outline> </outline> <outline text="Let's start small"> <outline text="Add a GUI to fdisk, mdadm"/> <outline text="Try constructing a GUI for managing fstab or exports"/> <outline text="Build a GUI for starting other applications"/> </outline>
operation
random ideas
<outline text="Start simple -- admin /etc/fstab or run smartctl"/> <outline text="Need place to collect ideas publicly"> <outline text="calpg wiki"/> <outline text="external wiki"/> <outline text="irc -- use #linuxfs, or something else"/> <outline text="mailing list?"/> </outline> <outline text="Python!"> <outline text="Found some interesting pythings that could help"> <outline text="module that can do stuff with devices"/> <outline text="pyparted to deal with partition management"/> <outline text="pylibacl for... well, you know"/> </outline> </outline>
free-form notes
Would be nice to have some kind of wizard-like user space tool that would allow virtualized data management on Linux.
Need to scope the requirements.
Do we want some kind of permanent storage management (disk/CF/optical)? Device maintenance? Ways to drive SMART, or other testing?
Do we want some kind of storage pool management (manage LVs, manage pools [for fs's that understand them])?
Do we want some kind of file system managment (create, check, remove, expand)? Managing /etc/fstab, /etc/exports, and the automounters? boabab (disk usage analyzer)
Do we want some kind of data management (replicate/migrate/backup/mirror)?
So I think we can start small. Take a common TUI utility or two (fdisk or mdadm) and try constructing a GUI around it.