soniah / polidor

Polidor is a program for cleaning up a disk based storage hierachy

polidor

Polidor is a program and library for cleaning up a disk based storage hierachy.

Sonia Hamilton, [e-mail], http://www.snowfrog.net.

Overview

Polidor is Portuguese for "polisher".

The files in Polidor are:

• cleaner/cleaner.go and cleaner/retentions.yml - the main program and it's configuration file. Directories being scanned are printed to the screen, to give an indication of progress. Run using:

% cd cleaner
% go run cleaner.go

• generator/generator.go and generator/generator.yml - for generating test data for the cleaner program, and it's configuration file. The names of files being generated are printed to the screen, to give an indication of progress. Run using:

% cd generator
% go run generator.go

• polidor.go and polidor_test.go - library and tests

Program Logic

• the configuration file is read in
• the storage directory is walked using filepath.Walk()
• to prevent the program from taking too long, a channel named timeout is used
• the polidor library provides various directory parsing functions

Tests

Tests are run using Travis https://travis-ci.org/soniah/polidor. They can also be run by:

% go test
% go test -run <test name>