[Gllug] dump/restore

[Nix]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Richard Cottrill uttered the following:
> Would the problems with dump also occur if you were to try a backup with a dd command like:
> dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/some/file/name

Yes. They occur with everything that accesses the block devices rather
than going through the FS layer, as the block device access bypasses the
page cache.

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