Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <kufel!> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:13:30 +0200 (CEST) |
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> > Note that I think all these arguments are fairly bogus. Doing things like > "dump" on a live filesystem is stupid and dangerous (in my opinion it is > stupid and dangerous to use "dump" at _all_, but that's a whole 'nother > discussion in itself), and there really are no valid uses for opening a > block device that is already mounted. More importantly, I don't think > anybody actually does.
I know a few people that often do:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 e2fsck /dev/hdc1
to make an "exact" copy of a currently working system.
Maybe it is stupid, but they do. Fortunately, their systems are not SMP...
Andrzej
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