Initial implementation of metadata log sharing.

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-0.5?
+0.5.1 [2007-11-13]
+    - Have the lbs-util tool check the version number when reading a
+      snapshot, and signal an error if the format is not recognized.
+    - Include a sample script, contrib/parity-gen, for creating
+      RAID-like parity sets to recover from some segment corruption.
+      The par2 command (http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) is used to
+      actually generate the parity sets; the parity-gen script simply
+      automates maintaining the parity sets.
+
+0.5 [2007-10-16]
     - Much improved Python interface for accessing and manipulating LBS
       archives and local database information.  The interface should not
-      yet be considered stable.
+      yet be considered completely stable.
     - Python implementation of lbs-util now includes most of the
       features of the Perl implementation, plus some other new features.
-      The Perl library and utility are deprecated, and will be removed
-      in the future.
+      The Perl library and utility are deprecated and have been removed
+      from this release.
     - Preliminary snapshot restore support in lbs-util.  This is still
       not yet extensively tested.