Re: Unusable system during dd to USB block device

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 28/12/2020 14:08, Arto Huusko wrote:

> Is this something known, or should I file a PR? Obviously writing a
> disk image using the block device is not the right way to do it, but
> neither should the system slow down the way it did.
The need to use the raw device for dd block operations is known (at 
least it is to me. Although last time I screwed up and forgot I don't 
recall it making the system run slow for other IO ops. However I'm not 
sure I particularly tried any as I was waiting for the operation to 
complete (and wondering why it was taking so long ;) ).

Mike