Dump time issues

[Chris H]

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

> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:38 AM, David Wolfskill <david at 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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