X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=f39c442fe8d65a15db0e4820620bfd8a0ac1ab39;hb=7422942fcabc3e5735e850fce8113e9751ddd399;hp=d0a723e1fd3195a37f074074050669600fc24042;hpb=4267a8ad1b9dd8362e02b8342a8e1dd9dc3fac76;p=dump.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index d0a723e..f39c442 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.7 1999/11/21 00:17:12 tiniou Exp $ +$Id: TODO,v 1.17 2001/02/16 14:16:54 stelian Exp $ Need to verify: --------------- @@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ All others: 2. More documentation? Examples, crontab? 3. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems - (lseek/read negative count). + (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 @@ -31,3 +32,26 @@ All others: 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 + . +