Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:53:20 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Frank J. Beckmann" <frank@barda.agala.net> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is gzero? Message-ID: <20050926205320.GA20833@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200509262227.46975.frank@barda.agala.net> References: <200509262227.46975.frank@barda.agala.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:27:44PM +0200, Frank J. Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > maybe this is a kind of stupid question, but what is the device gzero for? > When should I use it instead of /dev/zero? It's to allow you to emulate a really big (41PB) fake disk for testing. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDOF+/XY6L6fI4GtQRAm2AAKC8KNUWWqJmPK1v83yIry8/Mg76jgCfWWv0 efNvjTGuB9Hjx1z5/2u4jXU= =9Fz1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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