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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2014 09:46:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Dan Plassche <dplassche@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dump an Unmounted Journaled UFS Filesystem
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Dan Plassche wrote:

> Thanks Alex and Warren.  Omitting the "-L" flag makes sense to avoid
> any possible conflicts.  Also, I am not normally taking a snapshot
> because there's no need to worry about data changing with the
> filesystem unmounted.

Sure.

> Perhaps a more accurate question would be whether dump understands the
> journaling implementation within the filesystem? Or maybe all data is
> written to a disk before a journaled filesystem is unmounted and dump
> does not need to understand the setup?

All journaling should be completed when the filesystem is unmounted 
cleanly.



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