From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 3 10:48:10 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37BE37B401; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:48:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5423543E4A; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:48:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB3Im1h0021248; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:48:01 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gB3Im13J021245; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:48:01 -0800 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:48:01 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Kirk McKusick 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> References: <200212031821.gB3IL9qc066627@repoman.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200212031821.gB3IL9qc066627@repoman.freebsd.org>; from mckusick@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:21:09AM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE97PxgXY6L6fI4GtQRApUmAJ9IUaCdSgQMGBUlElGs/H0wrAiqDACeMMUq ON1Azibz1x/MVr6y8Dtvp0I= =eLqx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message