X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=75f60c49b353f1c5045e69f521957985dc1789c6;hb=ff9ce949110452295fd4675d5cb0f08d89b4ca6f;hp=c8cfff0824f9e76322601ee1fda525ae244a206d;hpb=92e383cb36c302a811e9448941e78a5b541511f3;p=osl.git diff --git a/README b/README index c8cfff0..75f60c4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,35 +6,35 @@ system provides. Libosl is simple: - - For libosl, all data stored in the osl tables are blobs, - libosl will never try to interpret the table contents. +- For libosl, all data stored in the osl tables are blobs, +libosl will never try to interpret the table contents. - - There is no fancy query language but only a relatively - simple C-API. +- There is no fancy query language but only a relatively +simple C-API. - - There's no network support for network-access and libosl - only uses a very rudimentary table locking mechanism. +- There's no support for network-access and libosl only uses a very +rudimentary table locking mechanism. - - There are no dependencies on external libraries. An augmented - version of the red-black tree implementation of the linux - kernel is in included in the libosl package. +- There are no dependencies on external libraries. An augmented +version of the red-black tree implementation of the linux +kernel is included in the libosl package. Libosl is fast: - - It uses sha1 hashes for content-based addressing. +- It uses sha1 hashes for content-based addressing. - - Red-black trees are used to make lookups fast. +- Red-black trees are used to make lookups fast. Libosl is portable: - - It is known to compile and run on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD, - NetBSD and Solaris. +- It is known to compile and run on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD. It might +work on other Unix systems as well. - - Content and metadata is stored in an endian-agnostic way. +- Content and metadata is stored in an endian-agnostic way. Libosl is open source: - - Licensed under the GPL, version 2. +- Licensed under the GPL, version 2. Apart from the library itself, the package also contains simple examples and an fsck program, oslfsck, which can be used to recover