-$Id: TODO,v 1.5 1999/11/02 09:35:55 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 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
+ 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.
-2. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
- invocation, like the SunOS version.
+All others:
+-----------
-3. Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
- reports)
+1. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
+ invocation, like the SunOS version.
-4. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
+2. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
-5. 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+ active
+3. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active
filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
-7. Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD,
+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...
-8. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
+5. 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).
+
+6. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
+ it able to debug dump with gdb.
+