search for: c4052

...ted within 1s of each other) [ben at foreground ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=trash1.img oflag=direct bs=1M count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 104.645 s, 41.0 MB/s [ben at background ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=trash2.img oflag=direct bs=1M count=4096 ^C4052+0 records in 4052+0 records out 4248829952 bytes (4.2 GB) copied, 106.318 s, 40.0 MB/s I thought based on this statement: "Currently, the Block I/O subsystem does not work for buffered write operations. It is primarily targeted at direct I/O, although it works for buffered read operation...