Drive Imaging with dd

[Kareem Shehata]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:21, Jim Rootham wrote:
> I would suspect (with almost no evidence) that you may be missing latency
> windows (especially on write).  It would not take too many times for the disk
> to have to spin (almost) all the way round to hammer the total transfer rate
> pretty good.   If you could get more buffers in the pipe that might help.
> 
> Jim

I have the same suspicion.  Is there any way to control pipes in bash? 
I was thinking of piping the data through dd again with a different
block size to try and make a quasi-buffer, but I don't think that'll be
very efficient.

Kareem

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