Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much when changing tapes causes the volume to...

[dump.git] / TODO

$Id: TODO,v 1.16 2000/06/01 18:30:08 stelian Exp $

Need to verify:
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1.	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):
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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 active filesystems 
	(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
	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). The BSD code in traverse.c
	(all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend.

5.	Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
	it able to debug dump with gdb.

6.	Add a compression mode using zlib on each file (see
	http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib).

7.	Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...

8.	From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>:
	  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.