Re: Kernel 2.4.15-pre6 / EXT3 / ls shows '.journal' on root-fs.

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 15:41:02 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:05:03PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:

> Dump does not reliably work with live file systems with 2.4.x

It doesn't work reliably on live filesystems on ANY kernel. That
property is enhanced a bit by 2.4, that's all. There's no way that a
block-level dump can do things like walk file indirect chains
atomically on a live filesystem, even with 2.2.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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