> for example, if you have 0 dirty blocks and then temporarily create > 100MB file and then delete it *before* it is dumped. then you got > 100MB of dirty blocks in the cache. these blocks will not be cleaned > out by dump as the blocks are not referneced in the filesystem. these > blocks belong to no files but are chained in the free list. these > blocks are not lost. they will be used when allocating storage for > files. if these files get dumped, the dirty pool shrinks.
these blocks may not be lost in the cache, but they are lost to the worm. - erik
