I have been trying to come up to speed on
the issue of dumping file systems from
2.4.x kernels using dumps. I located
Linus' unequivocal words about the dangers
of using dump. I have a couple of questions:
1. Do the same warnings apply to XFS and xfsdump?
(Is the caching system used with the newer
kernel used only with certain file system types?)
2. Perhaps, naively, is it possible to shut off
caching temporarily (and without rebooting),
accepting the performance hit, while a dump
is done, and then restart caching afterwards?
Please cc a reply directly to me (bonomo@sal.wisc.edu),
as I am not a regular member of this list (at least,
not yet...)
Thank you!
Richard B.
-- ************************************************ Richard Bonomo UW Space Astronomy Laboratory ph: (608) 263-4683 telefacsimile: (608) 263-0361 SAL-related email: bonomo@sal.wisc.edu all other email: bonomo@ece.wisc.edu web page URL: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~bonomo ************************************************ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/