TODO

   1 $Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 tiniou Exp $
   2
   3 Need to verify:
   4 ---------------
   5
   6 1.      Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
   7         reports)
   8
   9 2.      Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
  10         was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this
  11         wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this.
  12
  13 Urgent items (for the next stable version):
  14 -------------------------------------------
  15
  16 1.      Make dump honor the no-dump attribute on directories.  Currently, it
  17         honours it only on files.  This means that a directory flagged with
  18         the no-dump attribute will be dumped if it contains a file without
  19         the no-dump flag.
  20
  21 All others:
  22 -----------
  23
  24 1.      Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
  25         invocation, like the SunOS version.
  26
  27 2.      More documentation? Examples, crontab?
  28
  29 3.      Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active
  30         filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
  31
  32 4.      Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD,
  33         since nobody would ever re-compile this on a BSD system.
  34         Since the tape format is the same, the native BSD
  35         restore can be used to restore tapes...
  36
  37 5.      Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
  38         make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation
  39         of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a
  40         (v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we
  41         already have the code for this).
  42
  43 6.      Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
  44         it able to debug dump with gdb.
  45