[nflug] which copy?

[eric]

so thats why it took so long?

Ken Smith wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 14:40 -0500, eric wrote:
>  
>
>>Why would you use:
>>1.) ssh server "cat /home/partition.img" \ |sudo dd of=/dev/hda
>>over
>>2.) ssh server "dd if=/home/partition.img" | dd of=/dev/hda
>>
>>I found # 1.) in a book
>>    
>>
>
>The default block size for dd is 512 bytes which isn't optimal for
>reading data through the filesystem or writing data through a network
>socket.  cat will default to reading/writing in larger chunks.
>
>  
>


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after years of waiting...

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