TODO

   1 $Id: TODO,v 1.20 2001/07/18 12:54:06 stelian Exp $
   2
   3 Need to verify:
   4 ---------------
   5
   6 1.      Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
   7         was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this
   8         wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this.
   9
  10 Urgent items (for the next stable version):
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  12
  13 All others:
  14 -----------
  15
  16 1.      More documentation? Examples, crontab?
  17
  18 2.      Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems
  19         (lseek/read negative count) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14.
  20         Unfortunately, this seems to continue for a very few users).
  21
  22 3.      Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
  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
  26         already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c
  27         (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend.
  28
  29 4.      Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
  30         it able to debug dump with gdb.
  31
  32 5.      Extend the compression patch to use bzip2.
  33
  34 6.      Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
  35
  36 7.      From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>:
  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.
  42
  43 8.      Modify (or get rid of) rmt in order to work with non Linux
  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
  47
  48 9.      EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev
  49         <mjt@tls.msk.ru>.
  50
  51 10.     Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc).
  52
  53 11.     Dump compiled with RedHat's 7.0 gcc seems to hang for some
  54         people. When compiled with kgcc all the problems disappear.
  55         Will the RedHat's 7.1 gcc resolve this ?
  56
  57 12.     Dump uses /dev/tty for reporting some messages. When invoked
  58         from a script, /dev/tty may not exist. Why not using just
  59         stderr ?