It is 100% reproducible. Step 1) Build with debug enabled dattobd_debug = 1 2) install dattobd 3) run timedatectl When kdump is enabled ---> kernel crash When kdump is disabled ---> OS hang 4) After a forced power off, OS does not boot. Stop in this state.  This issue is also referenced in this case. https://github.com/datto/dattobd/issues/410 This is the vmcore-dmesg of CentOS7.9. [vmcore-dmesg.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20360689/vmcore-dmesg.txt) In my testing, the OS crashes, hangs, or does not boot on relatively old kernels. Note that this does not occur on Debian9 (kernel 4.9.0.x) - RHEL7.x and RHEL7.x Clone OS (kernel 3.10.0.x ) - Debian10 (kernel 4.19.0.x) - Ubuntu18.04 (kernel 5.4.0.x)