-$Id: TODO,v 1.5 1999/11/02 09:35:55 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.19 2001/05/10 20:55:09 stelian Exp $
-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.
+Need to verify:
+---------------
-2. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
- invocation, like the SunOS version.
-
-3. Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
- reports)
-
-4. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
-
-5. Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
+1. 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.
-6. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active
- filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
+Urgent items (for the next stable version):
+-------------------------------------------
+
+All others:
+-----------
-7. 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...
+1. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
-8. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
+2. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems
+ (lseek/read negative count) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14.
+ Unfortunately, this seems to continue for a very few users).
+
+3. 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).
+ already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c
+ (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend.
+
+4. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
+ it able to debug dump with gdb.
+
+5. Extend the compression patch to use bzip2.
+
+6. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
+
+7. From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>:
+ a archive_file
+ Archive file. Archive a dump table-of-contents in
+ the specified archive_file to be used by
+ ufsrestore(1M) to determine whether a file is in
+ the dump file that is being restored.
+
+8. Modify (or get rid of) rmt in order to work with non Linux
+ systems (limited succes has been reported). A good version
+ of rmt to be looked at is part of star
+ http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
+
+9. EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev
+ <mjt@tls.msk.ru>.
+
+10. Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc).
+
+11. Implement a -F option for restore.
+
+12. Dump compiled with RedHat's 7.0 gcc seems to hang for some
+ people. When compiled with kgcc all the problems disappear.
+ Will the RedHat's 7.1 gcc resolve this ?
+
+13. Dump uses /dev/tty for reporting some messages. When invoked
+ from a script, /dev/tty may not exist. Why not using just
+ stderr ?