From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown
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> If you've ever tried to venti format a 20GB disk you'd know why
> it sucks to deal with.  I don't have 24 hours to wait for it to
> finish as this is also my main linux box for my day job.

If you put your arenas into several smaller partitions instead
of one big one you can fmtarenas each partition independently;
as long as your splits don't loose too much due to fragmentation
your only cost will be that your venti config will be a few lines
longer.

Dave Eckhardt