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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:03:12 -0400
From:      "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@dreamscape.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.6-RC: Glacial speed of dump backups 
Message-ID:  <200207260003.g6Q03C541496@dreamscape.com>

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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> That said, Mark's problem suggests that a dirty data block isn't
> being flushed - which does look more like a cache flush bug.

I don't think Linux considers this a bug, it's just part of the design
of the 2.4 kernels, even though it means that dump is pretty much
deprecated for a mounted file system.  I asked the ext2 dump
maintainer about this, and he says this is "normal" and a "known
design problem and not a fixable bug."

Anyway, it works fine in Freebsd, so I'm good.

--Mark

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