On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 02:04:14AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:20:45PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > Put a [xfs]dump in cron. > > > > from what I've heard, dump may be dangerous on linux 2.4 kernels. something > > to do with how buffers and raw devices are handled now, as opposed > > to how they used to be. > > You are talking about ext2/dump or xfs/xfsdump? At the time Linus has a big problem with ext2/dump. I don't know if he still does, but I think Linus's problem was with dump producing bad output or not restoring stuff correctly. I haven't heard anything about the corruption on read-only file systems for quite some time. I think they were actually using dd as the example program for this. Hmm, I can't seem to find it in either kernel-traffic or my feeble search in linux-kernel. As far as I've tested, xfsdump is safe on i386. I don't see any bugs open on xfsdump in the bug tracking system. Nate