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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by feld on Sunday January 08, 2017 @07:53PM (#13353181)
They don't want it. Even if you got the patches accepted to the kernel they'd never accept patches to GNU Coreutils to support it.
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Re:Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) by feld on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:04PM (#13359345)
The most recent comment I've seen on this is lukewarm at best: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.0/03374.html
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