Can it also do LVM2, BTRFS, advanced RAID, network storage and encryption ?

Um yes - and the two people mentioned in the Announcement have @redhat.com addresses. ;-)

You don't have much experience with data storage management, do you ? It makes much more sense in context. :)

Basically anything more advanced than "plain partitions with a classicla filesystem (EXT3/4, XFS, FAT) on top":

• LVM
• BTRFS
• RAID
• iSCSI
• multipath

etc.

Um, I don't think that is very likely:

https://lists.fedoraproject.or...

Um, Blivet GUI is jut a GUI frontend to the existing Blivet storage library that has been there for years (many, many years if you include the time it was part of the Anaconda core). Adding the same functionality to GParted or making GParted use Blivet on the other hand would be one big useless rewrite.

Talk is cheap - bugreports/logs or it din't happen. :P

It is based on the blivet storage management library:

https://github.com/dwlehman/bl...

Which is also used by the Anaconda Fedore/Red Hat Enterprise Linux installer:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki...

And Open LMI:

https://fedorahosted.org/openl...

But it might indeed use libparted to create the actual partitions.

Yes - the blivet storage management library supports alsmost any existing data storage technology you can come up with and then some more. Thats the reason why Blivet GUI came to be - the functionality is already there, it just needs to be exposed by a graphical user interface.

Lets say that storage management is a rather interesting area to be involved in. ;-)

This is an email from Lennart Poettering to the Fedora Devel list dissing the Blivet GUI project due to implementation details:

https://lists.fedoraproject.or...

So Lennart Poettering actually really is involved, but in a rather different way than you would expect. :)

Blivet GUI is a frontend to the Blivet storage management library, which already supports RAID and BTRFS just fine. It is just not yet supported in the GUI, but I suppose it should be added soon.

Actually, I remember reading an English language "how to handle a Soyuz capsule landing in your backyard" manual, IIRC it was published somewhere on nasaspaceflight . It was written in such a manner that it could be given out to local administration, should the capsule land in an unplanned area by accident.

Nevertheless, it was quite an interesting read - how to help the cosmonauts open the capsule with a special wrench mounted on the outside of the capsule, to watch out for automatically deployed boom antennas, etc.

Looks like the manual is also included in this article: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=815

I remember reading some reply from the designers to the issue of solar panel wipers. IIRC they thought about it but it would be too heavy, could scratch the panels and would have many moving components and motors that could easily break down. Also, it seems that Martian sand devils do the job just fine. :)

Skynet ? :)