"Anthony A. D. Talltree" schrieb:
>
> >Summary: "Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it behind."
>
> What it really means: "Linux is a toy system and rather than fix our
> design flaws we'll play sour grapes."
wrong.
what it realy means is: dont use a loaded rifle as a walkingstick,
you might shoot your foot.
dump is ok with linux if you use it on an unmounted filesystem.
everything other is abuse.
Dump bypasses the filesystemlevel to access the data and therefor only
works reliable if all caches are flushed to disk. This is only garanteed
if the filesystem is unmounted or at least mounted read-only.
But this is not a problem of linux, it's a problem of dump.
what you are saying is the same as if you try to change a wheel
of your car without making shure it won't roll away while working,
and when it rolls away an breaks your foot saying "what a damn bad
car..."
Christoph
