Re: Strange IDE performance change in 2.6.1-rc1 (again)

[Tobias Diedrich]

I wrote:

> Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > 'cat' is probably doing a stat() on stdout and seeing it's connected
> > to /dev/null and not even bothering to do the write() call.  I've seen
> > similar behavior in other GNU utilities.
> 
> I can't see any special casing for /dev/null in cat's source, but I
> forgot to check dd with bigger block size. It's ok with bs=4096...

However with 2.4 dd performs fine even with bs=512.

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