4 Jul
2008
4 Jul
'08
5:09 p.m.
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
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Yes, dd is actually pretty slow in wall clock time. Where it wins is in human time since you just type a short command line and go away, and it duplicates any setup work you've done in addition too installing the packages.
But it's not as slow as most think. They just don't take advantage of capabilities, like bs=16384. This makes a *huge* difference in both system overhead and wall clock time.
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Bill