Bug#911246: RFA: fpart -- sort file trees and pack them into bags
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the fpart package (I'm not using it any more).
The upstream is very responsive and would like an updated version of this package.
The package description is:
Fpart is a tool that helps you sort file trees and pack them into bags (called
"partitions"). It is developed in C and available under the BSD license.
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It splits a list of directories and file trees into a certain number of
partitions, trying to produce partitions with the same size and number of
files.
It can also produce partitions with a given number of files or a limited size.
Once generated, partitions are either printed as file lists to stdout
(default) or to files. Those lists can then be used by third party programs.
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Fpart also includes a live mode, which allows it to crawl very large
filesystems and produce partitions in live. Hooks are available to act on
those partitions (e.g. immediatly start a transfer using rsync(1)) without
having to wait for the filesystem traversal job to be finished. Used this way,
fpart can be seen as a powerful data migration tool.
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