#include <hallo.h> * Aleksandr Koltsoff [Wed, Jan 03 2007, 05:47:36AM]: > 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
Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do with: rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile && sync. And you introduction does not tell me about anything new in your tools and I do not like reading a long novel to learn that simple details. Something like: 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 as visible files). In technical terms, they contain a library wrapper used with LD_PRELOAD to make unlink calls zero-out the data before unlinking the files and helper executables based on it. ... Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
