On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, der Mouse wrote:
>> dump:  If you're doing a dump of a live filesystem, it's quite
>> possible to produce an unusable dump.
>
>This is simply a bug in dump, and should be fixed or (insistently)
>reported to the relevant vendor, as the case may be.

  If this is a dump bug, it's been there for a *long* time.  I've been running
into it since Ultrix 3.0 on a VAX in the late 80's.  I'm surprised nobody's
nailed it in this many years.

                       -Dave McGuire