bug#68216: An instance of DD receiving data from another instance with bs=1M reports the wrong record count.

2024-01-02 Thread ja...@johnstone.net.au
Hi all, It seems an instance of `dd`  with only an output file doesn't report the count of records accurately despite bs= being described as influencing both ibs= and obs= dd'ing from an unstable remote over ssh today I had it continue from the last received block between crashes in preparat

bug#68216: Re: An instance of DD receiving data from another instance with bs=1M, reports the wrong record count.

2024-01-02 Thread ja...@johnstone.net.au
Hi Pádraig, iflag=fullblock seems to resolve this experience and the man page excerpt provided makes sense though those lines make no appearance in the man pages on Archlinux. I will follow up with the distro maintainers. Thanks, Jared OpenPGP_0xB648A7603ED419B7.asc Description: OpenPGP pu