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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	bug-coreutils@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dd PATCH: add conv=direct
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 17:00:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404072100.i37L0QGe005005@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:43:41 CDT." <20040407204341.GF2814@hexapodia.org>

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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:43:41 CDT, Andy Isaacson said:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:03:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > If you want a block scrubber then write a block scrubber.
> They exist.  They're a pain in the ass to find when you need one.  dd is

And finding a block scrubber that actually works *properly* is even more of a
challenge.  I've seen more than a few that do stupid things like truncating the
file and then writing the appropriate number of bytes....


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-07 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-06 22:03 dd PATCH: add conv=direct Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07  0:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 16:21   ` Bruce Allen
2004-04-07 16:42     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 17:31   ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 18:18     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 19:24       ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 19:34         ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 19:47           ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 20:03             ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 20:43               ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 21:00                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2004-04-07 21:35                 ` Bruce Allen
2004-04-08  6:56                   ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 11:07                     ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-08 19:32                       ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 19:51                         ` Paul Jarc
2004-04-08 21:34                         ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-08 16:23                     ` Philippe Troin
2004-04-08 20:20                       ` dd patch to remove noctty Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 21:40                         ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-09  0:37             ` dd PATCH: add conv=direct Anton Blanchard
2004-04-09  1:42               ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-04-10 21:28                 ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-07 20:46       ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-07 21:06         ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 21:09         ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 19:12     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-04-07 20:14       ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 22:02 ` Nathan Straz
2004-04-07 22:09   ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-08 11:44     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg

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