On Friday 11 May 2001 13:53, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Cooker people. You have recently put a version of e2fsprogs and
> libe2fsblabla into Cooker that renders backups of existing filesytems
> with dump broken. This is fine for people who are installing cooker
Just a warning:
Dump should not be used to dump live fs with
2.4 kernels at all. It's very risky and can result
in corrupted backups. The reason lies in the buffer
cache/page cache. It was discussed at kernel ML.
See also http://www.lwn.net/2001/0503/kernel.php3
for a short summery.
Cheers,
AS
