Unverified Commit 702d0770 authored by Kroese's avatar Kroese Committed by GitHub
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Write random data instead of zeroes 

When writing zeroes the underlying virtio driver detects and skips them, so fill the file with random data instead.
parents 86d6be7b 0ebe6ac7

run/disk.sh

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@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ if [ -f "${DATA}" ]; then 
      if [ "$ALLOCATE" = "Z" ]; then



        GB=$(( (REQ + 1073741823)/1073741824 ))

        echo "INFO: Writing ${GB} GB of zeroes, please wait.."

        echo "INFO: Writing ${GB} GB of random data, please wait.."



        dd if=/dev/zero of="${DATA}" seek="${OLD_SIZE}" count="${REQ}" bs=1M iflag=count_bytes oflag=seek_bytes

        dd if=/dev/urandom of="${DATA}" seek="${OLD_SIZE}" count="${REQ}" bs=1M iflag=count_bytes oflag=seek_bytes status=none



      else
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ if [ ! -f "${DATA}" ]; then 


    if [ "$ALLOCATE" = "Z" ]; then



      echo "INFO: Writing ${DISK_SIZE} of zeroes, please wait.."

      echo "INFO: Writing ${DISK_SIZE} of random data, please wait.."



      dd if=/dev/zero of="${DATA}" count="${DATA_SIZE}" bs=1M iflag=count_bytes

      dd if=/dev/urandom of="${DATA}" count="${DATA_SIZE}" bs=1M iflag=count_bytes status=none



    else

run/install.sh

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@@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ if [ "$ALLOCATE" != "Z" ]; then 
else



  GB=$(( (SYSTEM_SIZE + 1073741823)/1073741824 ))

  echo "Install: Writing ${GB} GB of zeroes, please wait.."

  echo "Install: Writing ${GB} GB of random data, please wait.."



  dd if=/dev/zero of="${SYSTEM}" count="${SYSTEM_SIZE}" bs=1M iflag=count_bytes

  dd if=/dev/urandom of="${SYSTEM}" count="${SYSTEM_SIZE}" bs=1M iflag=count_bytes status=none



fi