Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 06:55:01 -0500 (EST)
> > Could you perform a test using:
> > "time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null count=20480"
>
> Shouldn't it be better to do:
> time sh -c "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null count=20480; sync"
Ummm. What does sync do on /dev/null, and do we care ?
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