2009/9/9 Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org>: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:58:50PM -0400, Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote: >> tar has a penchant for 512-byte blocks and being ass-slow. > > How hateful.
I suppose that's why some people pipe things like that through dd with a different output blocksize; I'd often wondered that. Though I'm sure that comes with its very own hate. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>
