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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:48:01 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump dump.8 main.c
Message-ID:  <20021203104801.A18375@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <200212031821.gB3IL9qc066627@repoman.freebsd.org>; from mckusick@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:21:09AM -0800
References:  <200212031821.gB3IL9qc066627@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:21:09AM -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> mckusick    2002/12/03 10:21:09 PST
>=20
>   Also add an operator warning that the `L' option should be used
>   if dump is run on a live filesystem without the `L' option being
>   specified. The alternative would be to silently use a snapshot
>   any time that a live filesystem is dumped, but this change in
>   dump semantics seemed too drastic at this time.

Would it be possiable/reasionable to add an out of band way to control
this such as the existance of a file or a compile time option?  I ask
because some backup systems like amanda don't do a good job of letting
you specify arguments to dump since dump support is rather hardwired.

-- Brooks

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