On May 17, 2001, "Anthony A. D. Talltree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But this is not a problem of linux, it's a problem of dump.
> Yeah yeah yeah. We've all heard that a million times before, and yet on
> real systems we've been happily using dump for years without
> consequences.
You've been lucky for years. Some day, it'll bite you, and you'll
regretfully remember this discussion. Or perhaps you'll keep on being
lucky.
Good luck :-)
> A more fitting analogy would be GM making cars out of cardboard and
> warning people to not leave them out in the sun because they might catch
> fire.
So your point is that dump should refuse to run on a mounted
filesystem? Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me. Then more people
would learn about its limitations and switch to some saner backup
tool.
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