Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2008-02-10 17:22]: > > > Do you have a patch? :) > > Not yet. Do you remember why it uses ibs? > > Here's what svn log says, but I really don't understand dd very well. > This was based on a comment on a mailing list or something. It does makes sense that a larger buffer size than the default 512 bytes (not 1 byte AFAIK) would speed it up somewhat, by saving syscall overhead. If there's a common divisor, like a block size, and it's reasonably big (a few K), it'd make sense to use that. -- see shy jo
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