I recently posted on comp.os.linux.setup regarding some non-amanda related issues with dma on drives and I had actually posted here awhile ago as well about these same issues. A respondent told me about several issues with dump and recent 2.4 kernels. I found some issues with specifically the 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 kernels regarding file system buffering with ext2 and recent 2.4.x kernels.
I have been using dump for quite some time on two of three systems and don't notice any problems but Torvalds called into question the validity of the backups when using dump and 2.4 kernels. Is this still the case with dump and a kernel like a self-compiled 2.4.17 kernel running with debian unstable with the latest debian packages? I have switched over to using gnutar for most other things but I still use dump on one system which does webserving for me. The last thing I could find after a rather quick search was an article on lwn.net about using dump and an email that Linus Torvalds posted to the kernel mailing list. One of the followups specifically stated that SMP was an issue. Thanks for any clarification or reading assignments :) -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
