With the ability to use logicall disk names instead of hardware names, it seems to me that /etc/dumpdates needsd to be changed.
The problem comes when a file-system (for rexample, /var) "moves" from one hardware drive to another. This can easily happen if a new drive is added to the system. (Perhaps a USB hard drive which may or may not be present at boot time?) A previous dump of /var might have occurred when /var was mounted from /dev/dk1, but a current dump would dump from /dev/dk2. There is no clue in /etc/dumpdates to tie the different entries together. Is there some sensible way to update dump(8) to use the file-system name rather than the physical drive name? ie, record the dump of /var rather than of /dev/dkn ? +---------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+ | Paul Goyette (.sig) | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) | 1B11 1849 721C 56C8 F63A | p...@whooppee.com | | Software Developer | 6E2E 05FD 15CE 9F2D 5102 | pgoye...@netbsd.org | | & Network Engineer | | pgoyett...@gmail.com | +---------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+
