Is /etc/dumpdates still useful?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

With the ability to use logicall disk names instead of hardware names,
it seems to me that /etc/dumpdates needsd to be changed.

The problem comes when a file-system (for rexample, /var) "moves" from
one hardware drive to another.  This can easily happen if a new drive is
added to the system. (Perhaps a USB hard drive which may or may not be
present at boot time?)  A previous dump of /var might have occurred when
/var was mounted from /dev/dk1, but a current dump would dump from
/dev/dk2.  There is no clue in /etc/dumpdates to tie the different
entries together.

Is there some sensible way to update dump(8) to use the file-system name
rather than the physical drive name?  ie, record the dump of /var rather
than of /dev/dkn ?

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