Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:06:05 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/md md.c Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20040301150348.0386a6a8@imap.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <58541.1078153347@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <Your message of "Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:57:09 GMT." <6.0.1.1.1.20040301145406.038ede88@imap.sfu.ca> <58541.1078153347@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At 15:02 01/03/2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >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. Note that I said "default block size". I'm not talking about overriding command-line options, I'm talking about making "dd if=/dev/foo of=/dev/bar" work if the foo or bar devices have >512 byte sectors. (But this is mostly irrelevant now anyway.) Colin Percival
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