Toby Corkindale via luv-main writes: >> if you dd using large blocks does that improve things? >> eg. >> dd if=/dev/zero of=<whatever> bs=8M oflag=direct > > When I was first testing it, I noticed that with block sizes around, say, > 10M, it went at ~8mbyte/sec. With 100+M blocks, I could hit 24 or so.
That's why I suggested GNU ddrescue - it auto-adjusts the block size for best throughput. (... I think. These days I mostly just use cp foo.iso /dev/sdb.) _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
