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From: "Grant Grundler" <grundler@google.com>
Subject: Re: weird throughput on write to SATA disk
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:35:11 -0700
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com> wrote:
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> Can you try "dd oflag=direct if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb bs=64k"?

sorry...meant to type "if=/dev/zero"...I don't recall if /dev/null
will work the same.

grant