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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 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou 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).
+
+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.	Add some support in dump and restore for numbering in sequence
+	the output files (when dumping to a file). Something like -N <prefix>
+	which creates (or reads) <prefix>-1, <prefix>-2 etc...
+
+8.	Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
+