[dump.git] / TODO

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.

3.	Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
	reports)

4.	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+ filesystem.

7.	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
	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).
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b45f51d6	1	1. Make dump honor the no-dump attribute on directories. Currently, it
1227625a SP	2	honours it only on files. This means that a directory flagged with
	3	the no-dump attribute will be dumped if it contains a file without
	4	the no-dump flag.
	5
b45f51d6	6	2. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
1227625a	7	invocation, like the SunOS version.
8d4197bb SP	8
	9	3. Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
	10	reports)
	11
	12	4. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
	13
	14	5. Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
	15	was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this
	16	wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this.
	17
	18	6. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ filesystem.
	19
	20	7. Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD,
	21	since nobody would ever re-compile this on a BSD system.
	22	Since the tape format is the same, the native BSD
	23	restore can be used to restore tapes...
	24
	25	8. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
	26	make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
	27	of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a
	28	(v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we
	29	already have the code for this).