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. Stelian Pop is now the current maintainer (since dump-0.4b5). 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