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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:25:21 -0700
From:      "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Dump time issues
Message-ID:  <6bb4cda435fb420fb663fa1d47b85a08@ultimatedns.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tp%2Box6jHVnFJ4m3AYf4bBY-OzEfTnwrBHZZ0wwEARAxg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6978A7BF-3CB7-4088-904D-5A60D755A04C@gmail.com> <20141025113846.GY1235@albert.catwhisker.org>, <CAN6yY1tp%2Box6jHVnFJ4m3AYf4bBY-OzEfTnwrBHZZ0wwEARAxg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:26:44 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:38 AM, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 01:26:43PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote:
> > > I?m seeing something odd in my dump output that I didn?t notice before:
> > >
> > > Dumping /root...
> > >   DUMP: WARNING: should use -L when dumping live read-write filesystems!
> >
> > (That, by the way, is pretty good advice in my experience.)
> >
> 
> As long as the volume is not SU+J. Then, in my experience, it's very bad
> advice.
This reminds me of a question that I've been meaning to ask for some
time now;
Why is the FreeBSD install media using SU+J by default?
While I understand Journaling reduces retrieve times, which makes it
all seem more responsive. IMHO the consequences, and limitations it
imposes, seem to outweigh the pro's.
Just wondering...

--Chris

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