>>>>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:11:23 +0900 (JST),
	Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> said:

> Well, I guess what you really meant to do is the following:
> 	gzip -dc image.gz | dd of=/dev/rwd0d obs=16k conv=osync

Oops, I missed the following part of your mail:

>>>>> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:55:19 +0200,
	Jukka Salmi <jukka-netbsd@2004.salmi.ch> said:

> Yes, but the file I'm trying to write to /dev/rwd0d is 5242880
> (== 16k * 320 == 10240 * 512) bytes

In that case, "conv=osync" is not needed, and the following command
should work:

	gzip -dc image.gz | dd of=/dev/rwd0d obs=16k

> Although I'm not sure why the gzip binary from 1.6.2 works.

And, hmm, I guess GNU gzip is doing buffering at output side,
but gzip in -current does not.

Matt,
Isn't it better to do the buffering for compatibility with GNU gzip?
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soda