On 2015-04-30 Thu 16:29 PM |, Andrew Daugherity wrote:
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> ...
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> dump is calling opendev() with dflags=0 (defaults), so it's using the
> character device.
> 

Perfect! Ordinary users like myself can place massive confidence in
you developers' work again as:


1.1 Files With Holes In Them
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Programs like dump that read raw disk devices have
no difficulty with holes, ....

5.0 Conclusions 
These results are in most cases stunningly appalling.
dump comes out ahead, which is no great surprise.

http://www.coredumps.de/doc/dump/zwicky/testdump.doc.html

Thanks!
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