Re: [Dump-users] Can't read next inode ...

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> > What would you think of adding some options:
> > 
> >   -D filesystem
> [...]
> >   -i
> [...]
> >   -X
> [...]
>
> I'm confused. To what program do you intend to pass those options ?
> (Linux) dump manpage or (my local copy of) losetup manpage do not
> mention those.

I'm suggesting adding those capabilities to dump.

I would expect -D to be fairly easy, and -i also provided it's
not necessary to have read the Nth inode block in order to find
the (N+1)th inode block.  -X might be more troublesome, depending
on how much block accounting dump is already doing.