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Re: dd (coreutils 6.10)
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: dd (coreutils 6.10) |
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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:59:56 +0200 |
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Jon Grant <address@hidden> writes:
> I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
> before giving up. Could it not give up on each block after say.. 1 or 2
> tries?
dd just tells the kernel to read the block, and immediately gives up on
it when the kernel returns an error. Any repetition is controlled by
the device driver in the kernel.
Andreas.
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