Added the need for a DEBUG option (not forking on each tape).

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-1.     Fix the multi-volume problem (is there one after all?, I could not
-       reproduce it and some people told me that multi-volume dumps were Ok).
+$Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 tiniou Exp $
 
-2.     Make dump honor the no-dump attribute on directories.  Currently, it
+Need to verify:
+---------------
+
+1.     Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
+       reports)
+
+2.     Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
+       was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this
+       wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this.
+
+Urgent items (for the next stable version):
+-------------------------------------------
+
+1.     Make dump honor the no-dump attribute on directories.  Currently, it
        honours it only on files.  This means that a directory flagged with
        the no-dump attribute will be dumped if it contains a file without
        the no-dump flag.
 
-3.     Change the way rdump and rrestore call rmt.  Currently, rcmd() is used
-       but it may be better to call rsh.  I have to look at the GNU tar code.
+All others:
+-----------
 
-4.     Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
+1.     Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
        invocation, like the SunOS version.
+
+2.     More documentation? Examples, crontab?
+
+3.     Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active 
+       filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
+
+4.     Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD, 
+       since nobody would ever re-compile this on a BSD system. 
+       Since the tape format is the same, the native BSD
+       restore can be used to restore tapes...
+
+5.     Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
+       make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
+       of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a 
+       (v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we
+       already have the code for this).
+
+6.     Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
+       it able to debug dump with gdb.
+