[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Robert Brockway]

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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, David Jericho wrote:

> And I've never had a problem with dumps either. On the other hand,
> when Linus says something like that about his pet project it makes you
> take a second look to find another solution.

It's certainly made me sit up & take notice.  Like many of us I'm sure I
work on facts and I want to know why dump could get stale data in some
cases.  Why it would get the stale data from the buffer cache but tar,
cpio and rsync wouldn't and why I wouldn't get the same stale data if I
just opened the relevant file.  Smacks of a bug in dump to me.

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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