Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 22:49:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: eivind@yes.no, mike@smith.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT install problem Message-ID: <199805271249.WAA24357@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>However, as long as the issue is only the size of the partitions, I >think there are better ways of solving this - e.g, a compressing >variant of the vn device. This would let regression testing run on >any box, instead of having to throw away 20GB of diskspace. (There >were also some hints about more issues in one of Tom's messages). Or the standard variant of the vn devices. It already compresses never-written-to blocks to 4 bytes each. I have tested files of size 16TB-1 and filesystems of size 1TB-512 on vn devices. A 1TB file system with 33 cylinder groups of size 31GB each took only 78 seconds to newfs and 70 seconds to fsck (when it was empty :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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