In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I guess/hope dd always makes it contiguously.
No, it is creating files by appending just like any other file write. One could think about a call to create unfragmented files however since this is not always working best is to create those files young or defragment them before usage. Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/