> > You are talking about ext2/dump or xfs/xfsdump? ext2 dump. xfsdump may be a completely different animal for all I know. > 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. that was the primary problem, yes. > 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. at least the example I'm thinking of, talked about r-o fs corruption because of some wierd case of cache corruption, because of dump. was mentioned on lwn.net's kernel page, some months ago. Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700