source: MondoRescue/devel/design@ 2210

Last change on this file since 2210 was 2026, checked in by Bruno Cornec, 16 years ago

Adds a design doc for upcoming devel version

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1- Works for multiple interface types (text, curses, X, Web easily)
2- Works with conf files a la pb
3- Works with plugins for Boot Loader, Disks layout and types, Virtual disk layer, Real disk layer
4- Works with different fstab contents
5- Works with multiple network backend
6- Works with multiple device target (real, virtual)
7- Works for cloning as for DR
8- Works in chroot/live CD/live system
9
10
11Mindi design:
12
13Goal is to create a bootable env contaning everything suited for DR/Cloning from the running system
14It should
15
16 - Initialize all what is needed (tmp dir, UI, syntax, ...)
17 - get parameters from user bsed on conf file opions
18
19 - get the boot loader info
20
21 - get all the HW disk info (including Raid controllers)
22 - get all the SW disk info (partitions)
23 - get all logical layer info (LVM, EVMS, ...)
24 - get all the FS layer info (deal with UUID/LABELS/...)
25
26 - get kernel info (keep failsafe support)
27 - deal with mandatory devices (kbd, USB CD, ...)
28 - get all the mandatory tools needed + deps
29 - create initrd/initramfs/... suited
30 - get device driver support info (udev/devfs/...)
31 - get the right list of dev. drivers
32
33 - get target boot device details
34 - generate target boot files/info (conf file format)
35 - optional generate boot media
36
37 - manages mondoarchive interface
38
39 - Interface can be dialog based + a static text window which contains a log of actions done and running
40
41
42Mondoarchive design
43
44Mondorestore design
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