On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:57:54PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >Device names are, but there's no harm in showing them if there's > >something else that's less variable. Pool names are not very variable > >at all. > > I was thinking of something a little different. Don't worry about > devices, because you don't send to a device (rather, send to a pool).
Right, which is why I want a pool name listed :) > So a simple list of source file systems and a list of destinations > would do. I suppose you could work up something with pictures > and arrows, like Nautilus, but that might just be more confusing > than useful. Problem is: say you have N removable devices plugged in. Which to use? You can eliminate the ones that don't have pools on them. And then? In the end you definitely need user input *when the backup device is initialized*. After that the backups can and should be automatic (plug it in, there it goes). > But that is the easy part. The hard part is dealing with the plethora > of failure modes... Well, yes, but in GUIs you do that by throwing dialogs at the user :^/ The main failure mode is the device getting removed while the pool is still imported. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
