Re:Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP
by tripflag on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @04:33AM
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Thank you for the correction -- it is likely that I did use count= when I ran into this some 10 years ago (and been paranoid about ever since). I thought a chunk of data was missing in the middle of the output file, causing everything after that to be shifted over, but I'm probably misremembering.
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thank you for bringing it up! i wasn't even aware of this potential problem, and I use bs= count= and skip= seek= (sk"i"p means "input") through pipes across the net aaaallll the time for decades.
it pretty much seems iflag=fullblock is a requirement if you want the counts to work, even though the failure times might be rare