[dump.git] / TODO

$Id: TODO,v 1.5 1999/11/02 09:35:55 tiniou Exp $

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+ active 
	filesystem (lseek/read negative count).

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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f34aca37	1	$Id: TODO,v 1.5 1999/11/02 09:35:55 tiniou Exp $
ec387a12	2
b45f51d6	3	1. Make dump honor the no-dump attribute on directories. Currently, it
1227625a SP	4	honours it only on files. This means that a directory flagged with
	5	the no-dump attribute will be dumped if it contains a file without
	6	the no-dump flag.
	7
b45f51d6	8	2. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
1227625a	9	invocation, like the SunOS version.
8d4197bb SP	10
	11	3. Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
	12	reports)
	13
	14	4. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
	15
	16	5. Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
	17	was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this
	18	wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this.
	19
f34aca37 SP	20	6. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active
f34aca37 SP	21	filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
8d4197bb SP	22
	23	7. Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD,
	24	since nobody would ever re-compile this on a BSD system.
	25	Since the tape format is the same, the native BSD
	26	restore can be used to restore tapes...
	27
	28	8. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
	29	make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
	30	of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a
	31	(v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we
	32	already have the code for this).