Hi,
I've been reading the linux-kernel mailing list and looking at the
conversation regarding "SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.", where
reading from a mounted filesystem's block device on 2.4 could cause
corruption. As such, I'm curious if any of the things mentioned there
also affect XFS.
I guess the big one that I'm curious about is: will an xfsdump of a live
XFS filesystem produce reliable dumps every time? Or should one
definitely be using tar for backups - in which case I guess the problem
mentioned here about a week ago(?) that there's currently no easy way to
back up just the extended information remains.
Chris
|