Hello It was suggested that I'd post a short announcement on these two lists in order to get some feedback for a small set of utilities I just released. The documentation covers integrating the tools into Debian and I'd appreciate feedback on that part. Especially if I'm doing something which is out of line established Debian policies (hence the debian-devel list) [these parts are mainly listings 7 - 9 with the associated text].
I'll copy & paste the introduction text so that you may decide whether the program might be of interest to you. Target users for the tools are people who run Linux systems in a virtualized environment. "Introduction Zerotools are a set of tools to aid keeping virtual disks clean (by filling binary zero to those regions which are no longer in "use"). This is done on-the-fly or manually, depending on which tool suits the needs best. Zerotools are Linux specific, implemented using C and licensed under GNU Public License (v2). The tools are provided without a warranty of any kind, in the understanding that software bugs do exist and bad things can happen. Please note that zerotools don't compete with various tools that rewrite file contents with "random" data in order to make data retrieval close to impossible. Do not use zerotools for this, or claim that they are good tools for this. They're not. (This text was added for people who only read introductions.)" You can find the software at http://koltsoff.com/pub/zerotools/ which includes the documentation, source code tarball (sorry, no .debs) and link to another page with all the source code as xhtml for easier read. Thank you for your time, Alex PS: please CC me in the responses as I currently do not subscribe to either list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
