X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=bdb4783621a4c7a07f5b64b62c8f39ac5c539ed8;hb=2ed89fda522ae6ed409a04b2ceca6aed57285632;hp=05e9a818547b44353188eb1b28a4e040560c1f5c;hpb=8590d6133f79f8701243d9a9605d5336581ab2e8;p=dump.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 05e9a81..bdb4783 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,23 +1,15 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 tiniou Exp $ +$Id: TODO,v 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou Exp $ 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 +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. 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. - All others: ----------- @@ -26,20 +18,25 @@ All others: 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... +3. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems + (lseek/read negative count). -5. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and +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). + already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c + (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend. -6. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making +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. Add some support in dump and restore for numbering in sequence + the output files (when dumping to a file). Something like -N + which creates (or reads) -1, -2 etc... + +8. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... +