[ale] writing to tape

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

Bad news if this is dd.

N+m records in

N - blocks read succesfully
M - partial blocks read + plus failed blocks read

Similar for output.

My guess is your data source is not keeping up with your output.  I
think it is conv equal noerror,sync that causes dd not to wait on
partial reads and instead to zero out partial buffers.

Greg


On 2/1/10, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> When writing to tape, I see the following:
>
> 4204276+2204423 records in
> 4204276+2204423 records out
>
> What do those two numbers represent?  I'm assuming they are related the
> the amount of data written, but google has not been my friend this morning.
>
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