Matt Bernstein wrote: > At 14:20 +0100 Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >>More seriously, since 2.4.11, there's a page-cache/buffer-cache >>aliasing problem which can lead to this being hit in ext3 if you >>merely read from the buffered block device on which the fs sits. This >>can happen, for example, if you dump(8) a live filesystem. I've got a >>fix pending for the ext3 side of that problem, and have posted the >>core VFS fix to l-k. > > *blush* We dump our filesystems live. I bet we're not the only ones. > Short of lvm, is there any other way to backup a ext3 live filesystem, that is say one mounted as /, /usr, etc and have it as a clean(empty journal) backup copy? Amit
