X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=922465bd519299a1af5bbd5ceb0c9751107628d8;hb=79e318657e7faa7b2951ff554dc6f1b92624a477;hp=03a2efca67b8f759685b99eb307372467d6bc5ea;hpb=1227625a12a66e0ded78a1997c2d23f23202a382;p=dump.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 03a2efc..922465b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,13 +1,45 @@ -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 1.16 2000/06/01 18:30:08 stelian Exp $ -2. 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: +--------------- -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. +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. -4. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one +Urgent items (for the next stable version): +------------------------------------------- + +All others: +----------- + +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 active filesystems + (lseek/read negative count) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14. + Unfortunately, this seems to continue for a very few users). + +4. 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). The BSD code in traverse.c + (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend. + +5. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making + it able to debug dump with gdb. + +6. Add a compression mode using zlib on each file (see + http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib). + +7. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... + +8. From Kjetil Torgrim Homme : + 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.