Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:08:09 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: About dd & make_request |
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On Fri, Mar 07 2003, Subodh S wrote: > Hi, > > When run > > dd if=/dev/mydevice of=/dev/null count=10 > > why does my make_request function get called only five times ??
because you didn't change the block size, so you got 5 1024b (default) buffers thrown at you?
-- Jens Axboe
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