Dump errors with selinux

Aleksandar Milivojevic amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Tue Dec 14 16:35:00 UTC 2004


James Wilkinson wrote:
> It's worth noting that Linus Torvalds believes the program to be
> terminally broken:
> http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3
> 
> He writes:
>     So anybody who depends on "dump" getting backups right is already
>     playing russian rulette with their backups.

Of course he wrote that.  He probably felt some guilt for not providing 
both block and character devices for disks, as any other half-decent 
Unix/Unix-like OS has ;-)

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