In message 5153a2fd.8020...@sneakertech.com, you wrote:
Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512
do just as well?
Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation.
Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing
I have filed the following PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431
Er, don't take my word for law: I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea
for most systems, I'm not even sure if it's optimal for mine. I did a
single test with three random values at different orders of magnitude
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:27:43 -0400
Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote:
I have filed the following PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431
Er, don't take my word for law: I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea
for most systems, I'm not even sure if it's optimal for mine.
In message 5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com, you wrote:
I have filed the following PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431
Er, don't take my word for law:
I didn't. I won't.
I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea
Any size which is an exact multiple of the physical block
On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message 5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com, you wrote:
I have filed the following PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431
Er, don't take my word for law:
I didn't. I won't.
I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea
Any size
In message 51543b7a.4030...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
It is possible, I would guess, that dd may notice the EOF occuring
before it has filled up an entire input buffer, and then just quit
at that point, _without_
I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason
to do so.
I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are
located on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html
which include the following example of how to perform the copy:
In the last episode (Mar 27), Ronald F. Guilmette said:
I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason
to do so.
I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are
located on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html
On 28/03/2013 8:10 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Question:
Why exactly is conv=sync is there?
I found this on http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/dd.1.asp
If you specified conv=sync and this input block is smaller than the
specified input block size, dd pads it to the specified
Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512
do just as well?
Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation.
Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing an
unnecessary bottleneck and the copy would be a lot
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