i was moving ~400gb to a new other file system, and noticed that
mkfs was extremely slow.  it turns out that mkfs by default moves
1024-8 bytes at a time.

i'm pretty sure this magical number turns out to be the default
kfs block size minus the size of the tag (careful with that ax, eugene).
ok, but this makes no sense when not extracting to a local kfs.

and why do we need to write exactly 1 block at a time?  what bug
are we covering for?

- erik

----
; adiff mkfs.c
/n/atom/plan9/sys/src/cmd/disk/mkfs.c:5,12 - mkfs.c:5,13
  
  enum{
  	LEN	= 8*1024,
- 	HUNKS	= 128,
  
+ 	Tagsize	= 8,
+ 
  	/*
  	 * types of destination file sytems
  	 */
/n/atom/plan9/sys/src/cmd/disk/mkfs.c:65,71 - mkfs.c:66,72
  int	lineno;
  char	*buf;
  char	*zbuf;
- int	buflen = 1024-8;
+ int	buflen;
  int	indent;
  int	verb;
  int	modes;
/n/atom/plan9/sys/src/cmd/disk/mkfs.c:148,154 - mkfs.c:149,155
  		xflag = 1;
  		break;
  	case 'z':
- 		buflen = atoi(EARGF(usage()))-8;
+ 		buflen = atoi(EARGF(usage()));
  		break;
  	default:
  		usage();
/n/atom/plan9/sys/src/cmd/disk/mkfs.c:156,161 - mkfs.c:157,178
  
  	if(!argc)	
  		usage();
+ 
+ 	switch(fskind){
+ 	case Kfs:
+ 		/*
+ 		 * preserve ancient hack for dflt block size; make room for tag
+ 		 * why does this need to fit into 1 block?
+ 		 */
+ 		if(buflen == 0)
+ 			buflen = 1024;
+ 		buflen -= Tagsize;
+ 		break;
+ 	default:
+ 		if(buflen == 0)
+ 			buflen = 8192;
+ 		break;
+ 	}
  
  	buf = emalloc(buflen);
  	zbuf = emalloc(buflen);

Reference: /n/atom/patch/applied/mkfsbufsize
Date: Thu Jun 19 14:41:56 CES 2014
Signed-off-by: quanstro@quanstro.net

--- /sys/src/cmd/disk/mkfs.c	Thu Jun 19 14:40:23 2014
+++ /sys/src/cmd/disk/mkfs.c	Thu Jun 19 14:40:23 2014
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 
 enum{
 	LEN	= 8*1024,
-	HUNKS	= 128,
+
+	Tagsize	= 8,
 
 	/*
 	 * types of destination file sytems
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@
 int	lineno;
 char	*buf;
 char	*zbuf;
-int	buflen = 1024-8;
+int	buflen;
 int	indent;
 int	verb;
 int	modes;
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@
 		xflag = 1;
 		break;
 	case 'z':
-		buflen = atoi(EARGF(usage()))-8;
+		buflen = atoi(EARGF(usage()));
 		break;
 	default:
 		usage();
@@ -156,6 +157,22 @@
 
 	if(!argc)	
 		usage();
+
+	switch(fskind){
+	case Kfs:
+		/*
+		 * preserve ancient hack for dflt block size; make room for tag
+		 * why does this need to fit into 1 block?
+		 */
+		if(buflen == 0)
+			buflen = 1024;
+		buflen -= Tagsize;
+		break;
+	default:
+		if(buflen == 0)
+			buflen = 8192;
+		break;
+	}
 
 	buf = emalloc(buflen);
 	zbuf = emalloc(buflen);