On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Aryeh Friedman > <aryeh.fried...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
