jim <gana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that dd never transfers a full block; $BS is about > 400000, and each time through > the loop, dd only transfers about 73xxx bytes, and sometimes less. > This suggests [??] that the finite size of the pipe buffer is somehow > involved
You can set ibs and obs independently for dd. So ibs can remain the same size, and obs can be 4096. paul
