Fast Image Writer ================= This tool aims to be a faster option than 'dd' when copying image files to a char or block devices. Why ? ===== For some unknown reason, 'dd' is performing very bad in my Linux box, when writing a 3.5G image to a SDHC card (mmcblkX) it tooks like two hours to perform it's job. This new tool makes sync writes to the device in blocks of 1M through the specific Linux system call sendfile(). This syscall have less overhead than common read()/write() mechanism and is doing the same work in 6 minutes. I am not sure what bug exists in 'dd', but this little program save my day. Author ====== Eduardo Silva <edsiper@gmail.com>