bug#7420: [Feature request]: add option to dd to fsync|fdatasync after each block written

2015-01-25 Thread Pádraig Brady
unarchive 7420 tag 7420 notabug close 7420 stop On 17/11/10 10:19, Марк Коренберг wrote: [Feature request]: add option to dd to fsync|fdatasync after each block written Suppose I want to show progress with: pv image.img | dd bs=16M of=/dev/sdc it will not work, as dd will write to sdc

bug#7420: [Feature request]: add option to dd to fsync|fdatasync after each block written

2010-11-17 Thread Марк Коренберг
[Feature request]: add option to dd to fsync|fdatasync after each block written Suppose I want to show progress with: pv image.img | dd bs=16M of=/dev/sdc it will not work, as dd will write to sdc momentarily. dd will hang on close(1) waiting for actual write to complete (tested on USB stick