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 -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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