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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 2014 07:51:36 -0500
From:      Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Report of my virtual network lab migrated from virtualbox to bhyve
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On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> bhyve (as far I know) disks must be one solid file (md backed) or a /dev
>> block device... therefore it is unlikely the above would work
>>
>
> The reported size would be identical so I don't see what the problem is.
>

bhyve blindly read/writes into the middle of the file without consulting
the filesystem and thus bypassing any things like sparse fill in.... namely
all you gain is a few seconds of startup time (matter of fact I think
truncate might use sparse allocation [i.e. attempting to read into the
middle with guest OS control will result in potentially seeing host data])


-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org



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