cvs commit: src/sys/geom/zero g_zero.c src/sys/modules/geom/geom_zero Makefile

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 25 July 2005 19:33, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>   Add a very simple and small GEOM class - ZERO.
>   It creates very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero.
>   On BIO_READ request it zero-fills bio_data and on BIO_WRITE it does
> nothing. You can also set kern.geom.zero.clear sysctl to 0 to do nothing
> even for BIO_READ.
>
>   I'm using it for performance testing where it is very helpful.

How long does a newfs take on that?

;)

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