X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=f39c442fe8d65a15db0e4820620bfd8a0ac1ab39;hb=60d46c352087c38c29a690d80b62441028579f35;hp=1fdb8e3214e2f10dd919267cc29f600873b8ea35;hpb=8d4197bb9ba5bbcef21409231ed8903b0cac353a;p=dump.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 1fdb8e3..f39c442 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,29 +1,57 @@ -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. +$Id: TODO,v 1.17 2001/02/16 14:16:54 stelian Exp $ -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) +Need to verify: +--------------- -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+ filesystem. +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. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one + invocation, like the SunOS version. + +2. More documentation? Examples, crontab? -8. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and +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). + 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. + +9. 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 + +10. Rework the makefiles, actually --prefix doesn't work in + configure. Maybe use automake in the same step ? + +11. EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev + . +