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From: bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Clearing venti arena during install
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:04:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060326210445.19843295CD@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)

If fossil+venti is chosen during installation, the entire
venti arena partition is cleared.  Is there a way to avoid
clearing all of the arena space?  Since in a sense it is an
append only log, and the purpose for clearing it is,
presumably, to allow recreating the index, may be a shortcut
exists?  Doing so will save a lot of time and space
particularly on a qemu VM.  In qemu one can use a sparse file
or a qcow format file which allocates space only for data
actually written.  Writing even zeroes can eat up space.

Perhaps it is easier to add a do-not-zero option for install
as a fresh qemu disk is already "cleared".

Of course, it doesn't make much sense to use venti under qemu
but p9p does not run on all the platforms (notably windows).


             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-26 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-26 21:04 bakul+plan9 [this message]
2006-03-27  0:09 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27  0:23   ` bakul+plan9
2006-03-27  0:30     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27  0:33     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27  0:52       ` geoff
2006-03-27  0:57         ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27  1:23           ` Bakul Shah
2006-04-17  9:57 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell

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