Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114346
RFE to include afio in FC
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
Afio makes cpio-format archives. It deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption. Supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. Afio can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script. afio is also a dep of mondo restore, so it will need to be included. I have been making afio rpms for a while, originally based upon the power-tools version, updated now to 2.5. http://geek.j2solutions.net/rpms/fc2/afio-2.5-1.src.rpm
To go along with afio for mondo, a few other things are necessary. lzo and lzop which are on a different bug, and buffer. Buffer: This is a program designed to speed up writing tapes on remote tape drives. After startup it splits itself into two processes. The first process reads (and reblocks) from stdin into a shared memory buffer. The second writes from the shared memory buffer to stdout. Doing it this way means that the writing side effectly sits in a tight write loop and doesn't have to wait for input. Similarly for the input side. It is this waiting that slows down other reblocking processes, like dd. http://geek.j2solutions.net/rpms/fc2/buffer-1.19-6.src.rpm
Jesse, Look into packaging this for Fedora Extras repository. If you have them packaged there already, a proposal to fedora-devel list would be a good idea