Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:41:02 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.4.15-pre6 / EXT3 / ls shows '.journal' on root-fs. |
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Hi,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:05:03PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> Dump does not reliably work with live file systems with 2.4.x
It doesn't work reliably on live filesystems on ANY kernel. That property is enhanced a bit by 2.4, that's all. There's no way that a block-level dump can do things like walk file indirect chains atomically on a live filesystem, even with 2.2.
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