$Id: TODO,v 1.14 2000/05/28 18:16:42 stelian Exp $ Need to verify: --------------- 1. Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this was ported from *BSD and was not tested - in fact, this wasn't even compiled in!). Need success reports for this. Urgent items (for the next stable version): ------------------------------------------- All others: ----------- 1. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one invocation, like the SunOS version. 2. More documentation? Examples, crontab? 3. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems (lseek/read negative count) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14. Unfortunately, this seems to continue for a very few users). 4. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and make the dump code more generic. This would allow creation of other backends for other filesystems. Implementing a (v)fat backend should be quite easy, as for BSD ffs (we already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend. 5. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making it able to debug dump with gdb. 6. Add a compression mode using zlib on each file (see http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib). 7. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... 8. From Kjetil Torgrim Homme : a archive_file Archive file. Archive a dump table-of-contents in the specified archive_file to be used by ufsrestore(1M) to determine whether a file is in the dump file that is being restored. 9. Add readline capabilities to interactive restore. Does this mean huge static restore or not? 10. Do the compare on the fly in restore C mode (useful when comparing huge files and you have not enough space in /tmp).