Re: [RFS]: pcopy - a replacement for dd

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:25, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Oct 2004, George Danchev wrote:
> > Desc: Pcopy is intended to be used when doing large disk(partition) to
> > disk(partition) copying where dd is just too slow (and error prone).
>
> When DD is slow, it just mean you should be using raw devices (see the raw
> command)... :)

Thanks, 
 I know about sct's raw utility (from the util-linux package ;-), but pcopy is 
a bit simpler and multithreaded copying program. Any objections, not to have 
pcopy included in the official archive ? 

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