Oh Crossie your so lovely. Fond memories of last time you flamed me on the list come rushing back.
I estimated before that Steven Evans was talking about writing to a blovk device special file.. WHICH IS NOT FILE IO. Dd tends to be used for that a lot doesn't it? If you read my most recent post before this, I said I used dd to write to a file and it worked. So dd in debian support LFS but wu-ftpd doesn't. No more flaming on the list.. Everyone got tired of that last time. Feel free to have the last word. I won't stop you this time ;-) Luke -----Original Message----- From: Crossfire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 2:36 PM To: Luke McKee Cc: 'Steven Evans'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [SLUG] Large File support made simple? Luke McKee was once rumoured to have said: > Dd is raw device io as apposed to file IO. Get off the crack - if dd is sourcing from a file, or writing to a file, that is going through the FS layer and is not "raw device io" at all. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
