cvs commit: src/sys/dev/md md.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Mar 1 07:02:35 PST 2004


In message <6.0.1.1.1.20040301145406.038ede88 at imap.sfu.ca>, Colin Percival writes:

>   Ideally, dd should look at what it's being asked to access, and get
>a default block size from that.  (Yes, there are much worse offenders,
>dd just happened to be the first problem which came to mind.)

No, dd(1) should do _exactly_ what we ask it to, with absolutely no DWIM
logic.

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