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| c534413c | 1 | $Id: TODO,v 1.20 2001/07/18 12:54:06 stelian Exp $ |
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| 3 | Need to verify: | |
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| 4267a8ad | 6 | 1. Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this |
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7 | was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this |
| 8 | wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this. | |
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| 10 | Urgent items (for the next stable version): | |
| 11 | ------------------------------------------- | |
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13 | All others: |
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| a94ecd11 | 16 | 1. More documentation? Examples, crontab? |
| 8d4197bb | 17 | |
| a94ecd11 | 18 | 2. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems |
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19 | (lseek/read negative count) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14. |
| 20 | Unfortunately, this seems to continue for a very few users). | |
| 8d4197bb | 21 | |
| a94ecd11 | 22 | 3. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and |
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23 | make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation |
| 24 | of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a | |
| 25 | (v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we | |
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26 | already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c |
| 27 | (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend. | |
| 8590d613 | 28 | |
| a94ecd11 | 29 | 4. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making |
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30 | it able to debug dump with gdb. |
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| a94ecd11 | 32 | 5. Extend the compression patch to use bzip2. |
| c930abff | 33 | |
| a94ecd11 | 34 | 6. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... |
| c930abff | 35 | |
| a94ecd11 | 36 | 7. From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>: |
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37 | a archive_file |
| 38 | Archive file. Archive a dump table-of-contents in | |
| 39 | the specified archive_file to be used by | |
| 40 | ufsrestore(1M) to determine whether a file is in | |
| 41 | the dump file that is being restored. | |
| 79dfd5d8 | 42 | |
| a94ecd11 | 43 | 8. Modify (or get rid of) rmt in order to work with non Linux |
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44 | systems (limited succes has been reported). A good version |
| 45 | of rmt to be looked at is part of star | |
| 46 | http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html | |
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| a94ecd11 | 48 | 9. EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev |
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49 | <mjt@tls.msk.ru>. |
| 50 | ||
| a94ecd11 | 51 | 10. Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc). |
| 067aec98 | 52 | |
| c534413c | 53 | 11. Dump compiled with RedHat's 7.0 gcc seems to hang for some |
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54 | people. When compiled with kgcc all the problems disappear. |
| 55 | Will the RedHat's 7.1 gcc resolve this ? | |
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| c534413c | 57 | 12. Dump uses /dev/tty for reporting some messages. When invoked |
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58 | from a script, /dev/tty may not exist. Why not using just |
| 59 | stderr ? |