#8313 NORM 9.1.0: Can OFW save-nand be made to go faster?

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#8313: Can OFW save-nand be made to go faster?
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   Reporter:  thomaswamm           |       Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com                
       Type:  enhancement          |      Status:  new                              
   Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  9.1.0                            
  Component:  ofw - open firmware  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Resolution:                       |    Keywords:                                   
Next_action:  test in release      |    Verified:  0                                
  Blockedby:                       |    Blocking:                                   
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Comment(by thomaswamm):

 In Q2E18 which came with 8.2-763, save-nand is beautiful!  It took me only
 3:51 (minutes:seconds) to backup my763.img (480MB) to a factory-formatted
 Sandisk cruzer micro 2GB USB memory stick.

 I then tested restore using  copy-nand u:\my763.img  which took only 4:03
 (min:sec).

 I am very happy with the outcome from starting this ticket!

 The save-nand user display is indeed much better now.

 Incidentally, I learn from this that backup/restore via save-nand/copy-
 nand does not restore the XO 'exactly', since scan-nand shows different
 results before and after.  Before backup, the nand is very fragmented.
 After restore, the nand is unfragmented.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8313#comment:14>
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