Re: [Clonezilla-live] Using CZ with Logocal Volumes

[Kevin W. W. <kev...@gm...>]

Steven Shiau wrote:
> BTW, for LVM, disk to disk is really done by dd in Clonezilla, so it's 
> very inefficient...

What are you using for the block size for dd? If there's a way for you to
figure out the hard drives cache size, that might be the most efficient.
Or separate ibs & obs parameters if using different hard drives with differing
cache sizes.  In the old days, the conventional wisdom was to use a block size
that corresponded to the block size of the file systems, but if you are
doing raw disk I/O with modern drives that have huge on-board caches, that
probably doesn't make sense. I'd think something like 8MB or even 16MB would
be worth trying. Have you experimented with different sizes for bs / ibs / obs?

-kevin
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