Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:29:03 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Dump corrupts ext2? |
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:48:41PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > The bug where dump could corrupt things was when getblk and the > > block device both used the buffer cache. That issue hasn't changed. > > Let me emphasize this: 2.4.11+ will still exhibit filesystem corruption if > the block device is accessed. The only way to avoid this is to use raw io,
What? Details, please. If you are talking about read access I would really like to know which filesystem it is. ext2 used to have a bug in that area, but it had been fixed months ago.
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