Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:29:03 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:08:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.
You can use LVM snapshot volumes to do it safely.
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