From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmwSD-0007uE-8M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:59:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBFGvKAh016587; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:57:20 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBFGnv3I014772 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:49:57 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EmwIn-0007oN-KO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:49:57 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4E11406160 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:49:57 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:49:56 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos Message-ID: <20051215164956.4d70b0fe@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87irtqr6u4.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> References: <43a050cb.7cdd13b4@vuk.kjorling.com> <200512141236.50799.bss03@volumehost.com> <20051215012043.3abe57b4@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <87irtqr6u4.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc2 (GTK+ 2.8.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_cOU1Niz59A2q_GnQAaRV3X1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 40f3448e-1e49-4f2c-a3df-93087e40b3d8 X-Archives-Hash: 21a2ed1fd327d5382380ff3a339afd17 --Sig_cOU1Niz59A2q_GnQAaRV3X1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same > > result and are faster. >=20 > dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the > default 512 bytes. Increasing the block size does make it /almost/ as fast as cat, but then it takes longer to type the command :) --=20 Neil Bothwick I am Barney of Borg: I love you. You love me. We're a happy Borg. --Sig_cOU1Niz59A2q_GnQAaRV3X1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDoZ60um4al0N1GQMRAlXuAKC2Wl7l1zdgrSrr5eYp3qi+oJ0DfACfeRXz KTc4gBk0LmbNJbrz/GaRvWE= =UwKV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_cOU1Niz59A2q_GnQAaRV3X1-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list