Just curious but is sdd any quicker than dd? Moss $ pkg_info sdd Information for inst:sdd-1.52p0
Comment: faster and improved version of dd Description: sdd is a replacement for dd(1). - Much faster than dd in cases where input block size (ibs) is not equal to the output block size (obs). - sdd does not share the design bugs of dd that cause fragments to be read from a pipe and filled up to input block size. - Statistics are much better readable than from 'dd'. - rmt support for if= & of= - Output file is sync'd before doing statistic report. - Timing available, -time option will print transfer speed - Timing & Statistics available at any time with SIGQUIT (^\) - Can seek on input and output - Fast null input - Fast null output - Reblocking on pipes does not fill small input blocks to input block size - Debug printing - Progress printing Maintainer: Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]>
