Dump(8) hosed on CURRENT

[Lukas Ertl]

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Martin Blapp wrote:

> > I now did a test with dump -L on a live filesystem, and I've seen the
> > "file expected but not found" error, too. There's obviously something
> > broken, we should check if it's related to -L or if it happens always.
>
> I just tested it without "-L" on a live, but not active filesystem.
> The restore finishes fine and everything seems to be there.
>
> So dump -L is broken :-(

I'd say this is not good(tm) and should be fixed before 5.1, since safe
dumping of a live FS is one of the key features of snapshots.

regards,
le

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