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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:02:27 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/md md.c 
Message-ID:  <58541.1078153347@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:57:09 GMT." <6.0.1.1.1.20040301145406.038ede88@imap.sfu.ca> 

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In message <6.0.1.1.1.20040301145406.038ede88@imap.sfu.ca>, Colin Percival writes:

>   Ideally, dd should look at what it's being asked to access, and get
>a default block size from that.  (Yes, there are much worse offenders,
>dd just happened to be the first problem which came to mind.)

No, dd(1) should do _exactly_ what we ask it to, with absolutely no DWIM
logic.

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