Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Dump corrupts ext2? | Date | 10 Oct 2001 16:28:24 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110101558210.7049-100000@train.sweet-haven.com> By author: Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi Folks, > > I was looking for some scripts to backup ext2 partitions > to multiple CDR's when I stumbled onto "cdbackup" at > http://www.cableone.net/ccondit/cdbackup/. > > Alas, there is a warning saying: > > "WARNING! When using this program under Linux, be sure not to use > dump with kernels in the 2.4.x series. Using dump on an ext2 > filesystem has a very high potential for causing filesystem > corruption. As of kernel version 2.4.5, this has not been > resolved, and it may not be for some time." > > I don't recall any problems like this, does anyone have > additional comments? >
Not really surprising... doesn't dump expect to be able to read a rw mounted filesystem by reading the raw device and get the data off it? Doesn't work.
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