But we should an application that can monitor S.M.A.R.T and RAID and warn on failure, and show disk information, file systems, volume labels, disk partitions, etc.
Allow to run fsck, mount/unmount, etc.
Eldmannen, thats only cause nobody knows how to get it installed. Theres still no easy way to get raid running from memory during install (at least software raid).
Auzy, That is a problem of user knowledge. I think spending a little time reading a How-to on RAID would solve your issue.
Personally I like the idea of a RAID monitor. Heck, I can get a widget that tells me the weather, but can't get one to tell me if I am having disk problems?
I think this is a good idea and I would be willing to help.
Yeah, thats what I'm saying though, its a great idea..
But still, users shouldn't need a manual to get software/Hardware raid going (in OSX, full control of the raid is built into the normal disk utility). So thats another problem I'd love to see addressed. The moment you need to pick up a manual to do something, something needs improvements.
Just was bringing it to attention (I think there has been a few ideas posted on it anyway).
I have tried do this myself - but it failed beacuse I have no experience with GTK+ and I found no good documentation about using GTK+ from perl or python.