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author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-13 16:51:12 -0400 |
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committer | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-13 16:51:12 -0400 |
commit | 38d490bff80c6477b61db33b0c80708bc3e5ec8d (patch) | |
tree | ed1b0c974d40f20c3e5388fc8ff9a944e02387b4 /libraries | |
parent | b43cc9f132f8a65daeb05a644b689a6e77d79a1c (diff) |
libraries/zfec: Wrap README at 72 columns.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/libraries/zfec/README b/libraries/zfec/README index 957d71bbb661e..0ae6f6963eadf 100644 --- a/libraries/zfec/README +++ b/libraries/zfec/README @@ -1,23 +1,25 @@ -This package implements an "erasure code", or "forward error correction code". +This package implements an "erasure code", or "forward error +correction code". -You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or, -at your option, any later version. You may use this package under the -Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0. (You may choose to use -this package under the terms of either licence, at your option.) See the file -COPYING.GPL for the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. See -the file COPYING.TGPPL.html for the terms of the Transitive Grace Period -Public Licence, version 1.0. +You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version +2 or, at your option, any later version. You may use this package +under the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0. (You +may choose to use this package under the terms of either licence, +at your option.) See the file COPYING.GPL for the terms of the GNU +General Public License, version 2. See the file COPYING.TGPPL.html for +the terms of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0. -The most widely known example of an erasure code is the RAID-5 algorithm which -makes it so that in the event of the loss of any one hard drive, the stored -data can be completely recovered. The algorithm in the zfec package has a -similar effect, but instead of recovering from the loss of only a single -element, it can be parameterized to choose in advance the number of elements -whose loss it can tolerate. +The most widely known example of an erasure code is the RAID-5 +algorithm which makes it so that in the event of the loss of any one +hard drive, the stored data can be completely recovered. The algorithm +in the zfec package has a similar effect, but instead of recovering +from the loss of only a single element, it can be parameterized to +choose in advance the number of elements whose loss it can tolerate. -This package is largely based on the old "fec" library by Luigi Rizzo et al., -which is a mature and optimized implementation of erasure coding. The zfec -package makes several changes from the original "fec" package, including -addition of the Python API, refactoring of the C API to support zero-copy -operation, a few clean-ups and optimizations of the core code itself, and the -addition of a command-line tool named "zfec". +This package is largely based on the old "fec" library by Luigi Rizzo +et al., which is a mature and optimized implementation of erasure +coding. The zfec package makes several changes from the original "fec" +package, including addition of the Python API, refactoring of the C +API to support zero-copy operation, a few clean-ups and optimizations +of the core code itself, and the addition of a command-line tool named +"zfec". |