> If fossil+venti is chosen during installation, the entire > venti arena partition is cleared. Is there a way to avoid > clearing all of the arena space? Since in a sense it is an > append only log, and the purpose for clearing it is, > presumably, to allow recreating the index, may be a shortcut > exists? Doing so will save a lot of time and space > particularly on a qemu VM. In qemu one can use a sparse file > or a qcow format file which allocates space only for data > actually written. Writing even zeroes can eat up space.
Any sparse file worth its salt would catch the case where you write zeros to a hole and not do anything. That said, I'd rather leave the zeroing in for now. The new venti, which I am testing on Plan 9 right now, does not require the zeroing. Russ
