7v5w7go9ub0o <[email protected]> wrote:

> > sdd if=/dev/something bs=1m -md5 -onull
>
> err...... what is sdd?

sdd is e.g. in ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/

sdd is the oldest free "dd" reimplementation and it introduced intermediate
statistics with signals from TTY in 1984 already (this is what *BSD now offers 
with ^T).

> If it is significantly faster than dd/dcfldd, then sdd may be the magic
> bullet! E.G. one would:
>
> 1. sdd if=/dev/something bs=xx -md5 -o /dev/somethingout
> 2. sdd if=/dev/somethingout bs=xx  -md5 -o null

See man page....
and try out

Jörg

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