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                                            Doug Hoyte

[Feature Request] Negative value for -p (range)

Neat idea, I like it! Patches welcome :)

Is it possible to crawl multiple ranges and append them to one locked file?

I tried a quick test and it seems to work how I expect. I have a 6.7 GB file. In window 1: $ sudo vmtouch -p 0-100M -l file LOCKED...

-vb duplicates progress bar output

Hi, The reason you're seeing two is that it tries to show an interactive progress bar while touching, by printing "\r" to go back to the beginning of the line...

ARM Support

Thanks very much! I tested it once on an ARM but I didn't document the compiler flags I used. Since ARM targets are so varied, I'd prefer to not clutter...

Reread -b file2 when file2 changes

Neat idea! A sort of combination between inotify (#39) and -b. I'd be open to pull requests.

Licence ?

Good question. The copyright is accurate: I wrote it and a bunch of people have contributed. We have licensed it under the 3-clause BSD license, which is included at the...

Licence ?

Done: 43866950c3d55847c6b804e67c3b455fc578ab6b

Added options -o and -r to save/read a list of files to use

Thanks! Yes, this has been something we've been thinking about for a while... - From the TODO file: - Machine readable input/output (JSON?) - Instagram engineers wrote a script to...

Added options -o and -r to save/read a list of files to use

We landed a similar patch here: https://github.com/hoytech/vmtouch/pull/49 Of course I'll be mentioning you in the changes file for design help. We still need to get to your "-o" functionality, but...

Add systemd service to Debian package

Hey, actually I'm more inclined to remove the service/daemon stuff from the debian package. Running it as a daemon is actually a fairly uncommon use-case. Usually people use vmtouch as...