Dump still works on a mounted file system in Freebsd, right? That is, a write that completes before dump is started will be in the dump, even if the data is in memory? I don't mean writing to a file during the dump, that's a separate problem.
I only recently learned that this doesn't work in Linux and I wanted to check that it's (still?) ok in Freebsd. Apparently, in the 2.4 Linux kernels, the buffer and page caches make it impossible for dump to always get the correct version of a file, even if there are no writes during the dump. It takes a umount before dump will see all of the changes (yuck). Anyone know about Solaris, IRIX, etc? --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
