On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 4:40pm, Dan Swartzendruber wrote > At 01:41 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Christopher S. Dahn wrote: > > I was running dump on 7.1, and had nothing but problems. I was told that > >Linus himself came out on the list and claimed that people should stop > >expecting reliable behavior from dump, as there were things being changed > >in the kernel that might make it unreliable. I switched to GNUtar, and > >have been fine ever since (when I don't hose up the SCSI chain). > > note that this is not true for XFS.
Indeed. To clarify, these issues (and Linus' objections) apply only to ext2 dump/restore. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
