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Re: Bug#281670: ITP: fl-cow -- copy-on-write utility



On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:25 +0000, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:57:00PM -0500, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > * Package name    : fl-cow
> >   Version         : 0.4
> >   Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi
> > * URL             : http://xmailserver.org/flcow.html
> > * License         : GPL
> >   Description     : copy-on-write utility
> > 
> > Fl-cow allows you to utilise hard links to save disk space by causing
> > hard-linked files to be copied rather than overwritten as they are changed.
> > 
> > This is useful for making changes to large source trees while keeping a copy
> > of the original tree to generate patches from. Also, if you are using the
> > Arch revision control system with working copies hard-linked to a revision
> > library, using fl-cow can prevent revision library corruption.
> 
> What kind of thing is this actually: a kernel patch, a prelinked library
> a file-system, etc.?  I think this information should be added to the
> package description.

its an LD_PRELOAD library. How about
Description: copy-on-write LD_PRELOAD library.

Rob

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