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Date:      Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:44:57 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom/zero g_zero.c src/sys/modules/geom/geom_zero Makefile
Message-ID:  <200507251944.58345.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200507251003.j6PA3Gr7003418@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200507251003.j6PA3Gr7003418@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Monday 25 July 2005 19:33, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>   Add a very simple and small GEOM class - ZERO.
>   It creates very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero.
>   On BIO_READ request it zero-fills bio_data and on BIO_WRITE it does
> nothing. You can also set kern.geom.zero.clear sysctl to 0 to do nothing
> even for BIO_READ.
>
>   I'm using it for performance testing where it is very helpful.

How long does a newfs take on that?

;)

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