On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:53 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Another issue I have to look further into is that dd and xdd report > different results for very large block sizes (> 1 MB). Be aware that xdd reports 1 MB as 1000000, not 1048576. Though, it looks like dd is the same, so that's probably not helpful. Also, make sure you're passing {i,o}flag=direct to dd if you're using -dio in xdd to be sure you are comparing apples to apples. -- Dave Dillow National Center for Computational Science Oak Ridge National Laboratory (865) 241-6602 office - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html