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dellastreet / NBD-SparseImager

A disk imaging solution for creating partial, sparse, binary images of windows machines for forensic analysis.
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nbd readahaed to zero #13

Open dellastreet opened 14 years ago

dellastreet commented 14 years ago

For small images preferably the read-ahead cache should be turned off.

dellastreet commented 14 years ago

cat /sys/block/nbd0/queue/read_ahead_kb 128

dellastreet commented 14 years ago

Did some tests but the image size after e.g. fls -r didn't change... seems not to matter?