[CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Fri Jul 4 17:09:43 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> <snip>
> 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.
--
Bill
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