TODO

   1 $Id: TODO,v 1.17 2001/02/16 14:16:54 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):
  11 -------------------------------------------
  12
  13 All others:
  14 -----------
  15
  16 1.      Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
  17         invocation, like the SunOS version.
  18
  19 2.      More documentation? Examples, crontab?
  20
  21 3.      Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems
  22         (lseek/read negative count) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14.
  23         Unfortunately, this seems to continue for a very few users).
  24
  25 4.      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). The BSD code in traverse.c
  30         (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend.
  31
  32 5.      Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
  33         it able to debug dump with gdb.
  34
  35 6.      Add a compression mode using zlib on each file (see
  36         http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib).
  37
  38 7.      Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
  39
  40 8.      From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>:
  41           a archive_file
  42              Archive file. Archive a dump table-of-contents  in
  43              the   specified   archive_file   to   be  used  by
  44              ufsrestore(1M) to determine whether a file  is  in
  45              the dump file that is being restored.
  46
  47 9.      Modify (or get rid of) rmt in order to work with non Linux
  48         systems (limited succes has been reported). A good version
  49         of rmt to be looked at is part of star
  50         http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
  51
  52 10.     Rework the makefiles, actually --prefix doesn't work in
  53         configure. Maybe use automake in the same step ?
  54
  55 11.     EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev
  56         <mjt@tls.msk.ru>.
  57