From 38d490bff80c6477b61db33b0c80708bc3e5ec8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "B. Watson" Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:51:12 -0400 Subject: libraries/zfec: Wrap README at 72 columns. Signed-off-by: B. Watson --- libraries/zfec/README | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/libraries/zfec/README b/libraries/zfec/README index 957d71bbb6..0ae6f6963e 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". -- cgit v1.2.3