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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti/fmtarenas approximate duration?
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In-Reply-To: <8e740ca37795a18672747b0f0c2912f9@plan9.escet.urjc.es>; from Fco.J.Ballesteros on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:38:24AM +0200
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:16:31 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:38:24AM +0200, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
>
> > entire Venti, you know it's zeroed.  Relying on a state variable
> > opens the door to inconsistencies.  In this case, even though
> > failure is unlikely, there's an alternative that is a lot less
> > likely to fail.
>
> On the other hand, pre-zeroing forbids you to just copy the venti
> partition to a larger drive. the `zeros' are also state :-)

Hm, I wasn't aware of that, I hadn't considered that level of detail.
There are lots of subtleties in Venti that I haven't picked up (yet).

++L