Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.97-5.3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> When setting up test environments (chroots and Xen domains) I often want to
> duplicate one block device or large file to several others.
>
> If I am creating three copies I don't want to read the data three times and
> write it three times, I want to read it once and write it three times.
That does sound useful.
> dd if=source of=dest1 of=dest2 of=dest3 bs=102400k
You'd need to use something other than "of=", since
the above command has always simply ignored all but the last one.
I.e., it's equivalent to this:
dd if=source of=dest3 bs=102400k
Hmm... but we *could* add an option to make it do what you suggest.
> The ideal would be something like the above. But a separate utility as part
> of coreutils to perform the same task would be OK.
>
> Ideally such a program would use asynchronous IO or threads to allow all
> writes to be performed at the same time (when writing to a RAID array three
> writes theoretically can potentially be completed in the same amount of time
> as one write).
Would you like to write the patch? :-)
Or even just add it to the TODO list?
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