No. Use dd to access devices. dd will automatically pick up the native
blocking factor for the device. On;y use blocking factors if you know what
you're doing.
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, rpjday wrote:
=>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
=>
=>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:45:51PM -0400, rpjday wrote:
=>> | dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > test.gz
=>> |
=>> | rday
=>> |
=>> | p.s. dd if=/dev/hda bs=96k | gzip > test.gz for efficiency
=>>
=>> Though of course that still wastes time chucking data through the pipe
=>> between two programs. This:
=>>
=>> gzip </dev/hda >test.gz
=>>
=>> should win. (Where'd the 96k come from - is it just an arbirary big chunk or
=>> do you have something specific in mind?)
=>
=>i see your first point -- is there any slowdown based on lack of blocking?
=>and the 96k is a throwback when i used to make images of floppies --
=>exactly 15 of them in a 1.44M image. obviously, any suitably large value
=>will do.
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