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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:14:41 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Advice for hacking on ufs/ffs
Message-ID:  <86lkqf1pum.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20060725183410.GA32063@megan.kiwi-computer.com> (Rick C. Petty's message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:34:10 -0500")
References:  <44C6430D.1050506@centtech.com> <20060725175331.78302.qmail@web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060725183410.GA32063@megan.kiwi-computer.com>

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"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:53:31AM -0700, Shane Adams wrote:
> > I used dd to create 1G file.
> A faster way is:
>     touch filename
>     truncate -s 1g filename

no, this will result in a fragmented image, which will hurt run-time
performance.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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