From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Subject: Re: raid1 sector size
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:30:11 -0600
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Roberto Spadim put forth on 2/6/2011 10:49 AM:

> [root@myhost block]# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=8196

> [root@myhost block]# dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/zero bs=8196

/dev/zero is a read source, not a write target.  I'm surprised this doesn't bomb
out.  Use /dev/null for output.

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Stan