Dumping live filesystems on Linux 2.4 -> Corruption

[Brian J. Murrell]

I am sure everybody has seen this:

http://www.lwn.net/2001/0503/kernel.php3

It would seem that one can no longer use dump (assuming one is using
Linux 2.4) to backup live filesystems.  So is everybody here now using
gnutar to backup filesystems on Linux 2.4?

Is there any loss of functionality to using gnutar?

b.

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Brian J. Murrell