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-$Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.21 2001/07/25 13:21:31 stelian Exp $
 
 Need to verify:
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-1.     Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success
-       reports)
-
-2.     Verify that dump works with kerberos authentification (this
+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):
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-1.     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.
-
 All others:
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-1.     Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
-       invocation, like the SunOS version.
-
-2.     More documentation? Examples, crontab?
+1.     More documentation? Examples, crontab?
 
-3.     Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active 
-       filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
+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).
 
-4.     Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD, 
-       since nobody would ever re-compile this on a BSD system. 
-       Since the tape format is the same, the native BSD
-       restore can be used to restore tapes...
-
-5.     Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
+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).
+       already have the code for this). The BSD code in traverse.c
+       (all those #ifdef _BSD) should go into the ffs backend.
 
-6.     Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
+4.     Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
        it able to debug dump with gdb.
 
+5.     Extend the compression patch to use bzip2.
+
+6.     Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
+
+7.     From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>:
+         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.
+
+8.     Modify (or get rid of) rmt in order to work with non Linux
+       systems (limited succes has been reported). A good version 
+       of rmt to be looked at is part of star 
+       http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
+
+9.     EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev 
+       <mjt@tls.msk.ru>.
+
+10.    Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc).
+
+11.    Dump compiled with RedHat's 7.0 gcc seems to hang for some
+       people. When compiled with kgcc all the problems disappear.
+       Will the RedHat's 7.1 gcc resolve this ?
+
+12.    Dump uses /dev/tty for reporting some messages. When invoked
+       from a script, /dev/tty may not exist. Why not using just
+       stderr ?
+
+13.    -a and -B option to dump are exclusive.