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bug#38186: dd doesn't copy whole file when specifying units with bs


From: Jack Hill
Subject: bug#38186: dd doesn't copy whole file when specifying units with bs
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:47:19 -0500 (EST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)

Hi Guix,

It seems that my version of dd from coreutils-8.31 does not seem to work correctly when using units with the bs option (e.g. bs=1M). In the terminal session below, I first use bs=1M. The output looks okay: dd appears to have copied the whole 2.3GiB file, but it has done so impossibly quickly. It turns out that went so quickly because the whole file has not been copied. If instead of using the units modifier, I specify the same number of bytes directly, everything seems to work as expected (notice the slower speed).

I have not determined whether this problem is specific to Guix.

```
$ sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sda bs=1M
2349+1 records in
2349+1 records out
2463842304 bytes (2.5 GB, 2.3 GiB) copied, 1.0693 s, 2.3 GB/s
$ sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sda bs=1048576
2349+1 records in
2349+1 records out
2463842304 bytes (2.5 GB, 2.3 GiB) copied, 3.03265 s, 812 MB/s
$ ls -l /run/current-system/profile/bin/dd
lrwxrwxrwx 18 root root 65 Dec 31 1969 /run/current-system/profile/bin/dd -> /gnu/store/9kzrrccpzl6i1sfwb0drb00gi2gwk0x0-coreutils-8.31/bin/dd
$ guix describe
Generation 42   Oct 28 2019 11:51:58    (current)
  guix 8c8d607
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: 8c8d60752e1ad73d5bd87d8497b357f8a8a389ab
```

Best,
Jack





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