2009/9/13 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>:
> but i was
> wondering why cmp would just work. it occurred to me that
> i could run the dds in parallel with a command like this
> cmp <{dd -if data -bs 64k -count 20000} <{dd -if ../sda1/data -bs 64k
> -count 20000}
Cmp was actually my original method, it wasn't until things started
going funny that I switched to md5sum, to rule out <{} as a potential
problem source and get some more feedback on the blocks themselves.
> surprisingly, this was just as fast on my setup as the specalized
> program
That is interesting to hear though :)
-sqweek
PS. not much progress on my server - having trouble getting ethernet
up to connect to sources and check out your sd stuff.
