X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=f39c442fe8d65a15db0e4820620bfd8a0ac1ab39;hb=a01aa5e8e6707ac4eb8012258514ddadef0cd3d8;hp=bdb4783621a4c7a07f5b64b62c8f39ac5c539ed8;hpb=c930abff2469b9571a22fc49d16f50f36f5a9301;p=dump.git diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index bdb4783..f39c442 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 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 @@ -34,9 +35,23 @@ All others: 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... +7. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... -8. 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 + .