Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:10:17 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Victor Sudakov" <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump -L Message-ID: <d7195cff0708070010m3f3756b7j8bd56857e885a783@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070807015038.GA39353@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20070724115401.GA1355@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20070806025614.GA21368@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <d7195cff0708052322x256816f8r1b4d5b1a30ac269f@mail.gmail.com> <20070806071857.GA23813@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20070806110518.GA8074@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> <20070807015038.GA39353@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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On 06/08/07, Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> wrote: > > > > > Does nobody know the answer, or am I the only one experiencing the > > > > > problem? > > > > > > > > I don't know the answer, but I get essentially the > > > > same behaviour. I have never seen any data loss, > > > > > > I gave an example below. The file "wins.dat" was not dumped. It is > > > indeed missing from the tape. > > > > > > If this is not a data loss, what is it then? > > > Not to perpetuate an argument for its own sake, but I suppose I meant "data loss" to mean the loss of files that _should_ exist, as opposed to files that _could_ exist. A fine line, but in my /laissez faire/ universe a quite salient one. As to whether wins.dat should exist is beyond me. If you believe it should, then that would be data loss by my metric. I apologise for any confusion, -- --
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