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Can I still use e2dump?

Well, you certainly can, but don't expect restore to work on compressed files! e2dump hasn't yet been modified to save the information that certain clusters are compressed. Thus, when restoring compressed files, it will not restore the cluster's bits that say if there are compressed or not. Data won't really be lost, but you will have a direct access to raw compressed data, and transparent decompression will not occur. This is almost certainly not what you want. [However, e2decompress can be coerced into decompressing the file -- pjm.]

I'm sorry but you'll have to use something else to make your backups, or wait until someone else modifies e2dump, or do it yourself....


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