On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:05:03PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> Dump does not reliably work with live file systems with 2.4.x
It doesn't work reliably on live filesystems on ANY kernel. That
property is enhanced a bit by 2.4, that's all. There's no way that a
block-level dump can do things like walk file indirect chains
atomically on a live filesystem, even with 2.2.
Cheers,
Stephen
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