-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 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou 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. Add some support in dump and restore for numbering in sequence
+ the output files (when dumping to a file). Something like -N <prefix>
+ which creates (or reads) <prefix>-1, <prefix>-2 etc...
+
+8. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
+
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