using dump

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Wed Apr 6 16:00:10 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:47, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
<snip>
> > I found that 'dump' is not reliable in linux machines. I vaguely recall
> > there is even a risk of corruption that was mentioned by Linus Torvalds
> > in the linux kernel mailing list, so he deprecated that. I don't know
> > what the situation with 'dump' is now though, so my statement maybe
> > obsolete.

> FUD.  http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html

I stand corrected. 

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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