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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:19:34 -0800
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject:   Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate 
Message-ID:  <200601121819.k0CIJYNw063521@gate.bitblocks.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:14:30 CST." <43C69C86.6000707@centtech.com> 

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> I think after the dd is done, fsck should be run against the affected 
> filesystems, which should take care of most of the issues.

For metadata yes, but not for normal file data.  He wouldn't even know
what got trashed.

> The OP's question was how to make dd faster, not really how to get the 
> data across safely. :)

Sometime you have to answer the question they should've asked!
That is what a diagnostician has to do.  Fix the cause.  Not
the symptom.



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