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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | bug#12626: Bug?: dd limited to <2G read size (2G-8K) on 64 bit machine? |
Date: | Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:37:15 +0100 |
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On 10/12/2012 03:34 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/12/2012 02:14 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:if you specify ibs and obs seperately, then you will get writes of the size you requested at least.Won't there be similar problems with the write system call too? Perhaps not on Linda's system, but on other systems. Once the buffer size exceeds 2 GB or so, things get pretty dicey in the wild, not due to any problem in dd itself, but due to the kernels or file systems that dd relies on.
True, but at least you'd get errors in that case. cheers, Pádraig.
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