Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:16:20 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Dump corrupts ext2? |
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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, in which case you know you're not getting a coherent view of things, so...
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