Added --new-volume-script.

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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.
+$Id: TODO,v 1.10 2000/01/13 13:54:04 stelian Exp $
 
-2.     Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
+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).
+
+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 <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.
+
+9.     Add a '--new-volume-script' option to dump (and restore),
+       such as found in tar.