Re: Ext2fs and hashed table.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
5 Jun 1997 23:14:20 GMT

Followup to: <5n6p5e$e0i$1@work.smurf.noris.de>
By author: smurf@work.smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The real reaosn dump/restore go to the raw disk is that there's otherwise
> NO way to set both ctime and atime/mtime when restoring (or even leaving it
> alone when dumping).
>

Personally, I'd rather see a special system call and go through the
file system. I do *not* think it is a good idea to go to the raw disk
on a mounted filesystem. It would be particularly great if a utility
could be written that would use the BSD dump file format.

"dump" as-is nearly trashes my machine (2.1.42).

-hpa

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