So i realized I'm being foolish w.r.t my comments on "i want my venti"
in the 9vx directory dd if=/dev/zero of=arenas bs=1048576 count=whatever do for index and bloom follow venti instructions. voila. Venti. Rinse and repeat for fossil. oh man I love this 9vx. Time for tvx -- tiny vx -- no need for the H any more, as that stood for horrible :-) ron