-1. Fix the multi-volume problem (is there one after all?, I could not
- reproduce it and some people told me that multi-volume dumps were Ok).
+$Id: TODO,v 1.25 2005/05/02 15:10:44 stelian Exp $
-2. Make dump honor the no-dump attribute on directories. Currently, it
- honours it only on files. This means that a directory flagged with
- the no-dump attribute will be dumped if it contains a file without
- the no-dump flag.
+Need to verify:
+---------------
-3. Change the way rdump and rrestore call rmt. Currently, rcmd() is used
- but it may be better to call rsh. I have to look at the GNU tar code.
+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.
-4. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
- invocation, like the SunOS version.
+Urgent items (for the next stable version):
+-------------------------------------------
+
+All others:
+-----------
+
+1. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
+
+2. 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).
+
+3. 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.
+
+4. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
+ it able to debug dump with gdb.
+
+5. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
+
+6. Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc).
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