[dump.git] / TODO

$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.

All others:
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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 a 4GB+ active 
	filesystem (lseek/read negative count).

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...

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.
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8590d613 SP	1	$Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 tiniou Exp $
	2
	3	Need to verify:
	4	---------------
	5
	6	1. Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
	7	reports)
	8
	9	2. Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
	10	was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this
	11	wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this.
	12
	13	Urgent items (for the next stable version):
	14	-------------------------------------------
ec387a12	15
b45f51d6	16	1. Make dump honor the no-dump attribute on directories. Currently, it
1227625a SP	17	honours it only on files. This means that a directory flagged with
	18	the no-dump attribute will be dumped if it contains a file without
	19	the no-dump flag.
	20
8590d613 SP	21	All others:
8590d613 SP	22	-----------
8d4197bb	23
8590d613 SP	24	1. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
8590d613 SP	25	invocation, like the SunOS version.
8d4197bb	26
8590d613	27	2. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
8d4197bb	28
8590d613	29	3. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active
f34aca37	30	filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
8d4197bb	31
8590d613	32	4. Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD,
8d4197bb SP	33	since nobody would ever re-compile this on a BSD system.
	34	Since the tape format is the same, the native BSD
	35	restore can be used to restore tapes...
	36
8590d613	37	5. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
8d4197bb SP	38	make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
	39	of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a
	40	(v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we
	41	already have the code for this).
8590d613 SP	42
	43	6. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
	44	it able to debug dump with gdb.
	45