Good day; I've run in to a couple of situations where it would be nice to be able to control the rate at which binary data goes through a pipe - for instance, in limiting bandwidth, or limiting the amount of data transferred from one device to another.. and I think dd would benefit from that feature; I suggest the "rate" parameter, which determines the number of blocks per second. That way, we could do something like dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=10k rate=10 to do a transfer from hda1 to hdb1, using ten kilobyte blocks, at 10 blocks per second (maximum). This makes it more predictable, and might reduce I/O load on the rest of the system. another useful situation: tar cz /home | dd bs=10k rate=10 | ssh remotehost tar zxv to limit the transfer to a maximum of 10 10kb blocks per second. This eases up on network traffic. In any case, it's a wishlist item. Thanks, Rob Bos -- Rob Bos - System Administration Wizard IT Services - http://www.wizard.ca http://linuxmagic.com Unix Administration, Website Hosting, Network Services, Programming (604) 589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada -------------------------------------------------------- Any and all opinions expressed herein are not necessarily the opinions of Wizard IT Services. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
