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by josteink 3454 days ago
Usually just specifying a reasonable blocksize works for me. bs=1m or so.

Without that it does literally take hours.

I suspect the default blocksize is really small (1?) and combined with uncached/unbuffered writes to slower devices, it just kills all performance outright.

Edit: answered! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13350002