arla on blocks

[Tomas Olsson]

Hi all,
now that we've passed a full run of 'run-tests -all' it's time for a first
preview of Arla with the block based cache.

What we've accomplished so far:
 * read/write files larger than cache size
 * successful tests on Mac OS X
We have not cared about performance or other platforms.

What we'll look at next:
 * cleanup, fix known races
 * support for the usual platforms (Linux, BSD:s)
 * performance

Source can be found in
 /afs/stacken.kth.se/ftp/pub/arla/snap/arla-block-TR1.tar.gz
aka
 ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/arla/snap/arla-block-TR1.tar.gz

Have fun
        /t