Oopsies I made a mistake this time :_) Congratulates :-) Thanks for keeping me on my tippie toes when it comes to making posts from now on.
Cheers, Luke -----Original Message----- From: Crossfire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 3:05 PM To: Luke McKee Subject: Re: [SLUG] Large File support made simple? Luke McKee was once rumoured to have said: > Oh Crossie your so lovely. Flattery will get you nowhere. > Fond memories of last time you flamed me on the list come rushing back. Its obvious that you didn't learn much from last time either, otherwise we wouldn't be here again. > I estimated before that Steven Evans was talking about writing to a blovk > device special file.. WHICH IS NOT FILE IO. Dd tends to be used for that a > lot doesn't it? Oh dear! I'm sorry to have insulted your inability to interpret people's postings. Lets replay that line. "been able to dd copy a 10gig harddrive onto a reiserfs hdd without any problems" Lets see... source is a harddrive (block device)... destination is a filesystem. Geez, I wish I could come to the same conclusion as you. To me it sounds like he's writing to a file. Furthermore, just because dd is used a lot for operating on block/character devices, doesn't mean its for raw IO. dd is just a generic filter. Go read `info dd' sometime. > No more flaming on the list.. Everyone got tired of that last time. Feel > free to have the last word. I won't stop you this time ;-) You mean you're not willing to make a fool of yourself publically again? That hardly surprises me either. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
