TODO

   1 $Id: TODO,v 1.15 2000/05/29 14:17:37 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.      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.      Do the compare on the fly in restore C mode (useful
  48         when comparing huge files and you have not enough space
  49         in /tmp).