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Re: confused, seems to be my normal state



Quoting John Hasler (2019-09-18 17:36:41)
> Jonas writes:
> > Please demonstrate just one single example of dd being faster than 
> > cp to transfer a full raw image to a raw device!
> 
> On modern systems you would probably need to be doing terabyte 
> transfers between disks on the same machine.  Back in the days when a 
> megabyte was a lot dd was *much* faster.
> 
> On an SD card I think that the write speed of the card is probably the 
> limiting factor.

Any idea why?


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