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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.
    Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:

    > I know a few people that often do:
    >
    > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1
    > e2fsck /dev/hdc1
    >
    > to make an "exact" copy of a currently working system.

    ---
    Presumably this isn't a problem is the source disks are either unmounted or mounted 'read-only' ?


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