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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 08:22:53AM -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote:

> > This needs to be "according to Linus, dump is deprecated". Given the
> > interest Linus has manifested for backups, I wouldn't really rely on
> > his statement :-)
> 
> Either way dump is not likely to give you a reliable backup when used
> with a 2.4.x kernel.

Since you are so well informed, maybe you could share your knowledge
with us.

I'm the dump maintainer, so I'll be very interested in knowing how
comes that dump works for me and many other users... :-)

Stelian.
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