When mirroring a disk with dd, I notice that a blocksize of 512 runs
awfully slow, but with bs=1MB (2^10bytes), it runs fairly quickly.
Can someone explain the implications of this? Did all the data not
copy properly with the larger blocksize?
thanks
Joe
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:04:13AM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote:
When mirroring a disk with dd, I notice that a blocksize of 512 runs
awfully slow, but with bs=1MB (2^10bytes), it runs fairly quickly.
Can someone explain the implications of this? Did all the data not
copy properly with
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:37:00 -0400
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:04:13AM -0400, Joachim Rosenfeld wrote:
When mirroring a disk with dd, I notice that a blocksize of 512 runs
awfully slow, but with bs=1MB (2^10bytes), it runs fairly quickly.
Can