Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

[Hani Duwaik]

On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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.
>
> dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the
> default 512 bytes.

Aside from speeding things up, what effect does increasing the block size have (does it in any way alter the resulting ISO?)?

Just wondering...

-Hani


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