Package: wnpp Hi, I'm planning on packaging cowdancer for Debian. It's a scratch-filesystem implementation that is implemented through LD_PRELOAD hacks. It uses only the standard Linux features for implementing a cow-like filesystem feeling; enough is implemented to get a reasonably useful pbuilder-cow. It's a hack to protect file modifications on a hard-linked tree copied through 'cp -al'; which seems to improve running time of pbuilder by around 25% compared to extracting base.tgz tarball every time. I will be interested to know if there is known similar work; and also if anybody else would be interested in using this. I have been running this for a week or so on pbuilder; and it looks somewhat sane (although needs some polishing work still). ... and yes, this is what I've been hacking on after being inspired by something in DebConf5. License: GPL URL: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/cowdancer.html cowdancer_0.3_i386.deb ---------------------- Package: cowdancer Version: 0.3 Section: utils Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) Installed-Size: 84 Maintainer: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org> Description: Copy-on-write directory tree utility. Tries to implement a shell session which has copy-on-write semantics upon hard-link copied directory trees. regards, junichi -- Junichi Uekawa, Debian Developer http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/ 183A 70FC 4732 1B87 57A5 CE82 D837 7D4E E81E 55C1
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