Dump and restore were written by the people of the CSRG at the University of California, Berkeley. They were ported to Linux by Remy Card , by using the Ext2fs library, written by Theodore Ts'o . Kevin Layer added the comparison code in restore. Doug Paul helped me to make dump able to backup 2GB+ filesystems. David Frey (the Debian dump maintainer) and the people from Red Hat Software provided lots of patches. Thanks to people who reported problems with the port, sent patches, and suggested various improvements. Here is a partial list of them (if I have forgotten someone, please complain): Henry Katz hkatz@hkatz.dialup.access.net Klaus Kudielka kkudielk@cacofonix.nt.tuwien.ac.at Florian La Roche florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de Greg Lutz greglutz@ix.netcom.com David Miller davem@caip.rutgers.edu David Monro davidm@cs.su.oz.au Lukas Nellen L.Nellen@ThPhys.Uni-Heidelberg.DE Brent Olson night@halcyon.com Bob Snyder rsnyder@janet.advsys.com Stephen Tweedie sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk Daniel Veillard Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr Jason Venner jason@idiom.com