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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:20:58 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NFS write() calls lead to read() calls?
Message-ID:  <20070328202038.V1185@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <460AAED3.9030903@fer.hr>
References:  <7ad7ddd90703280238r5dd3f30ftc1641926ecdf44a8@mail.gmail.com> <eudfat$g2m$1@sea.gmane.org> <7ad7ddd90703280611p5c0ca4e1y600315551391a813@mail.gmail.com> <eue3ku$mq2$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070328185815.I1185@fledge.watson.org> <460AAED3.9030903@fer.hr>

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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>
>>> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
>>>
>>>> What kind of C program or script did you have in mind? My C-foo is very 
>>>> weak ...
>>>
>>> If you have python installed, this is a simple way:
>>
>> Also good is dd between the file system and /dev/null.  Something worth 
>> remembering is that some tools (cp(1) in particular) use memory-mapped I/O, 
>> which may behave differently than raw I/O operations.
>
> You mean /dev/zero and dd with notrunc option? Yes, I didn't know about 
> notrunc until now :)

Yes, precisely what you said. :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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