From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Driver for SAN adapter From: YAMANASHI Takeshi <9.nashi@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:33:43 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 28ea4d26-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed Mar 23 15:20:31 JST 2005, Matthias Teege wrote: > > btw, you might be able to use a large unix file on > > the IBM ESS mounted via u9fs for a venti arena. This might not be correct, but I created a large (~20GB) hole file on unix and initialized it by fmtarenas with "-z" option. It worked and saved me time to zero the whole arena file. --