-$Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.7 1999/11/21 00:17:12 tiniou 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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2. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
-3. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active
- filesystem (lseek/read negative count).
-
-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...
+3. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems
+ (lseek/read negative count).
-5. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and
+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).
+ 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
+5. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
it able to debug dump with gdb.