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| 75 | +<h2>About Blivet</h2> |
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| 77 | +Blivet is a free, open-source python module for configuring storage on Linux. |
| 78 | +It was originally written as the storage backend for Anaconda -- the OS |
| 79 | +installer used by |
| 80 | +<a href='http://fedoraproject.org'>Fedora</a> |
| 81 | +and |
| 82 | +<a href='http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/'>Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a>, |
| 83 | +among others. |
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| 86 | +The main thing that makes Blivet stand apart from other storage configuration |
| 87 | +tools is the ability to model an arbitrarily large set of changes in memory |
| 88 | +without changing anything on disk. This makes it possible to specify your full |
| 89 | +configuration before ever changing anything on disk instead of applying |
| 90 | +changes as you define each layer. |
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| 93 | +Another powerful feature of Blivet is its DeviceFactory class hierarchy, which |
| 94 | +allows creation of full device stacks with a single method call using a |
| 95 | +top-down specification. |
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| 98 | +Blivet also features a powerful partitioning engine that can allocate new |
| 99 | +partitions based on flexible specifications. |
| 100 | +</p> |
| 101 | +<h2>Related Projects</h2> |
| 102 | +<ul> |
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| 104 | +<a href='https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda'>Anaconda</a> |
| 105 | +(<a href='https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/anaconda.git'>git</a>) |
| 106 | +is the |
| 107 | +<a href='http://fedoraproject.org'>Fedora</a> |
| 108 | +and |
| 109 | +<a href='http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/'>Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a> |
| 110 | +OS installer. |
| 111 | +</li> |
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| 113 | +Pykickstart |
| 114 | +(<a href='https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/pykickstart.git'>git</a>) |
| 115 | +is a python module that provides the functionality known as kickstart. |
| 116 | +</li> |
| 117 | +<li> |
| 118 | +Libblockdev |
| 119 | +(<a href='https://github.com/vpodzime/libblockdev'>git</a>) |
| 120 | +is a new library being written to provide a mid-level storage API to be |
| 121 | +shared by tools like Blivet, |
| 122 | +<a href='http://www.openlmi.org'>OpenLMI</a>, |
| 123 | +<a href='http://cockpit-project.org'>Cockpit</a>, |
| 124 | +and others. It is still in a relatively early stage in its development, but |
| 125 | +should be fully functional by the end of this summer. |
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