Philip Newton wrote:
> 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.
That's the Tape ARchiver for you ...
> 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.
To start with, you no longer have seperate data and STDOUT streams so -v
becomes useless. And OMG YOU WASTED A PID!!!l1!!l!!!!!1!!!eleven!!
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