On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:39:46 +0100 Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > dd is on the ramdisks, have you tested them at all?
No, I did not think about that, sorry, but this is a no-go anyway as I was told that there will be no more non-standard options in dd. I also promised myself to not nag about this so ... zip ;-) > On 2011/10/19 21:12, Thomas Pfaff wrote: > > This adds a new option disp that can be set to "human" for a more human- > > readable completion message. This does not change the current behavior. > > > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/kthxbye bs=1337K count=42 disp=human > > 42+0 records in > > 42+0 records out > > 57501696 bytes (54.8MB) transferred in 0.161 seconds (340MB/s) > > > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/kthxbye bs=1337K count=42 > > 42+0 records in > > 42+0 records out > > 57501696 bytes transferred in 0.138 secs (415847262 bytes/sec) > > > > You can add disp=legacy if you one day should decide to make disp=human > > the default (yah). Simple modification to scripts to keep them working. [...]
