1 $Id: TODO,v 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou Exp $
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.
10 Urgent items (for the next stable version):
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16 1. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
17 invocation, like the SunOS version.
19 2. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
21 3. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems
22 (lseek/read negative count).
24 4. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
25 make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
26 of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a
27 (v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we
28 already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c
29 (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend.
31 5. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
32 it able to debug dump with gdb.
34 6. Add a compression mode using zlib on each file (see
35 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib).
37 7. Add some support in dump and restore for numbering in sequence
38 the output files (when dumping to a file). Something like -N <prefix>
39 which creates (or reads) <prefix>-1, <prefix>-2 etc...
41 8. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...