Re: [Dump-users] Corruption of recently-modified file contents

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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Ben Harris wrote:

> Is this behaviour to be expected?  Does it represent a bug in either dump 
> or Linux?  How do other people deal with it?

Hello Ben,

I think, it's expected, since you use dump on an active file-system.
How to deal with it:
- you can mount the file-system read-only during the dump
- you can use the snapshot feature of LVM (that's what I do, very nice)

Cheers, Peter

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