On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> Yes, I did some tests last night using the following script (and some slight
> variations with different block sizes to make sure that that wasn't a
> factor):

Block size is a factor, it seems:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=32k count=1 # => 32k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=16k count=1 # => 16k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=16k count=2 # => 16k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=8k  count=1 # => 8k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=8k  count=2 # => 8k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=8k  count=4 # => 8k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=4k  count=1 # => 0k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=4k  count=2 # => 8k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=4k  count=4 # => 8k
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/thing bs=4k  count=8 # => 8k

> So, of these, only an 8k file produces an 8k file! Anything less than 8k
> produces a zero size file, and anything above 32k (including 32k) produces a
> file 24k too short. Hmmm...

Hmm indeed.  Maybe I should stop playing with this bug and start tracking
it down...

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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