From: "Lluís Batlle i Rossell" <viriketo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Clearing venti arena during install
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:57:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44436682.2020208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060326210445.19843295CD@mail.bitblocks.com>
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bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com wrote:
> 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.
As I've tested, if you avoid using "qcow" and otherwise use a "raw" qemu
image, the venti formatting is normally quick in my Linux system. Using
'qcow' terribly slows down that format process.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-17 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-26 21:04 bakul+plan9
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 [this message]
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