gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:04:30 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] dd and mount help 

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:06:23AM -0400, dwild+plug@starforce.com wrote:
> BUGS
>        The Linux dd (1) command does not currently align its buffers 
> correctly, and so cannot be used on raw devices.

Lame. It'd be a huge speed win to be able to do that, provided
you've got a decent SCSI bus and smart pipe(2). (Last I looked at
it, Linux's pipe(2) was quite good.)

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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