Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 05:40:03 GMT From: "Jordan Sissel" <psionic@gmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: re: bin/121287: dd(1) ignores any conversions if 'bs' was specified Message-ID: <200803090540.m295e3gx021652@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/121287; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jordan Sissel" <psionic@gmail.com> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, nick@anywi.com Cc: Subject: re: bin/121287: dd(1) ignores any conversions if 'bs' was specified Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 21:03:23 -0800 % dd if=/dev/zero conv=sparse ibs=1m count=100 of=myfile 100+0 records in 204800+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 0.274636 secs (381805694 bytes/sec) % du -hs myfile 48K myfile % ls -l myfile -rw-r--r-- 1 jls jls 104857600 Mar 8 12:12 myfile Setting ibs and conv=sparse correctly generates a sparse file. Additionaly, in your report you show two examples, both of which would never create sparse files (despite your filenames containing 'sparsefile') Can you elaborate on this? I don't really see a problem. -Jordan
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