pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) (03/04/91)
Archive-name: unix/dump/purdue-dump-diffs/1991-02-25 Archive: titan.rice.edu:/sun-source/dump-diffs.shar [128.42.1.30] Original-posting-by: pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) Original-subject: Re: Dumping active filesystems Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan) writes: >verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber) writes: >>Nope... SunOS 4.1 doesn't have the purdue hacks to support active >>dumps. I understand that the dump that will appear with BSD 4.4 will >>have all of the features that the SunOS dump has, at which point you >>could drop in the purdue (active filesystem) hacks. >>--mark >This sounds interesting. What are the purdue hacks, and are they >available on the net? >-- I'll followup myself. Lance Jones (vzv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu) told me that the "hacks" are available from titan.rice.edu, in the file sun-source/dump-diffs.shar. Unfortunately this contains only diffs for the 4.3BSD dump source code. This raises a new question: Is the source code available to the public, or is it restricted by AT&T copyright? I've checked uunet.uu.net and wuarchive.wustl.edu, and neither of them has source code for dump. -- * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 * * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) * * Stanford University * * Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret1.stanford.edu *