On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Pádraig Brady wrote:

On 12/07/2011 10:20 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:

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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
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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.

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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'.

Yes I had to change it, since fsm implies file system, but it is not
only about file systems.

I do think 'ssm' is better, however I would drop the '.py' from

Already done. But I can see that it is still present in the README file.
Will fix it, tanks.

the command name. This is incidental and restrictive going forward.
Note I checked the debian and freebsd man pages and 'ssm' is available.

I could not find it on http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi but I
know there is a project called ssm:

ssm.i686 : Macromolecular coordinate superposition library

but my project is called System Storage Manager and ssm is just the
executable. I could not find any binary with the same name (within
Fedora), not sure if that will be a problem...

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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.

Thanks for comments!
-Lukas