> 
> Ummm, apparently the problem comes in with a restore. The dump *works* just fine,
> but since the kernel does aggressive caching, there's no guarantee that the on-disk
> data is what the kernel is using. Of course, journalling FSs would recover their log
> , but I think the problem is that dump doesn't have a way of backing up the journal.
> I guess having working backups of most of yuor FS could help, but I don't really
> want to experiment ;-)
> 
> Anyway, maybe updated dump/restore would help those running 2.2.
> 


>From what I remember on the thread it was just that dump worked better on 
2.2, and worked most of the time, no?

        - G.

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