On 10/12/2012 09:25 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: [please don't top-post on technical lists]
> > Hey guys, this is still a bug though: > > Ishtar:dev/shm# dd if=4G of=4Ga bs=4G count=1 > 0+1 records in > 0+1 records out > 2147479552 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 4.0274 s, 533 MB/s > (note no error message....) Nope, that's not a bug, but behavior required by POSIX. You asked dd to read _up to 4G_ for a count of exactly 1. Just because the read was short does not make it an error. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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