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logiso.0.3 - log cd-rom files; migrate used files to hard disk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Mar 31 17:19:58 1995
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 12:30:16 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Michael Coulter <coulter@hpclmc.cup.hp.com>
Subject: logiso.0.3 - log cd-rom files; migrate used files to hard disk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: iso9660, cd-rom, file access logging, mirror, migrate files
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
I am particularly interested in getting feedback from someone with a
system that has more than one cd-rom drive.
-- Michael Coulter coulter@cup.hp.com
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Title: logiso - iso9660 logging; migrate used files to hard disk
Version: 0.3
Entered-date: 23MAR95
Description: Kernel changes to log iso9660 (cd-rom) file accesses and
utilities to migrate the files you use to a hard
disk.
Keywords: iso9660, cd-rom, file access logging, mirror, migrate files
Author: coulter@cup.hp.com (Michael Coulter)
Maintained-by: coulter@cup.hp.com (Michael Coulter)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/file
45652 logiso.0.3.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Copying-policy: Freely Redistributable. Copyright held by author.
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The following was extracted from the README file:
This package provides a facility to help you migrate to a hard disk
the files which you use on a cd-rom and use symbolic links for the
files which you don't use.
The logiso package contains changes to make to the isofs file system
to provide logging of disk activity on an iso-9660 cd-rom file system.
The package also contains utilities to migrate logged files to your
hard disk.
The logging facility is on by default, but you can use an ioctl call
to turn off logging and free up the kernel buffers (about 40K). See
"Kernel changes". The logiso_stop command can be used to turn off
logging.
Once you have installed it, a typical usage scenario would be:
1. You perform an operation and notice cd-rom activity. You decide
that you want to be able to do this operation without accessing
the cd-rom.
2. Clear the existing log so that you won't install other files.
This will also start logging if it was turned off.
Execute:
logiso_get /mount/path/cd-rom > /dev/null
or (slower to execute, but easier to type):
logiso_preview > /dev/null
3. Perform the operation again. Even though the cd-rom light doesn't
go on because the blocks are in the memory buffer, the cd-rom
file activity is still logged.
4. If you want to see what you are going to install, execute:
logiso_preview
to print a list of the files and directories that will be copied
to your hard disk. This empties the log, so you must repeat
step 3 before proceeding with step 5.
5. Install the files which were logged:
logiso_copy
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