Hmm... here is a URL to linux kernel list discussion on why Linus says "dump is depreceated":
http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2002/week28/0429.html I never saw problems on 2.2 with lage FS though. Guess it was just a matter of time. - Jim On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 09:11, Michael C Tiernan wrote: > On Friday 13 December 2002 08:15, David Allan wrote: > > as I > > really liked the dump & restore interface. > > I have been reading that 'dump' has been strongly discouraged for use on Linux > systems because of (at last reading) a problem exists between the kernel and > the application. I find this a bizzare definition but haven't been able to > research the problem much more. > > The note that I'd seen that sent me down this path said that Linus said there > was a problem and that it wasn't high on the list of things to fix. -- Jim Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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