Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:23:57 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: dnelson@allantgroup.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, patfbsd@davenulle.org Subject: Re: Command which does not work anymore? Message-ID: <4edded3d.1lu8b8nzIWjHRsxo%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20111205173845.GA53453@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20111205105130.161fc78a@mr129166> <20111205173845.GA53453@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > dd with a bs= option tells dd to use read() syscalls with a 10mb > size, but ssh is going to feed it data in much smaller chunks ... > Try using a smaller blocksize (8k or 4k), or use a buffering > program like ports/misc/team or misc/buffer just in front of your > dd command, so that dd always sees block-sized writes from its > stdin stream. or specify something along the lines of "obs=126b" instead of "bs=", so that dd will reblock the data itself.
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