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SubjectRe: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals?
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Hello!

Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> writes:

> Thats why BSD and others do a CRC on the dump code to make sure everything
> is consistent enough to do a dump. It also only writes to reserved section
> of the disk and not the filesystem. Thus the horror story becomes vapor.

And it uses separate routines in the disk drivers to do the dump,
not the usual strategy() routine.

Regards, Felix.

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