-$Id: TODO,v 1.9 2000/01/07 19:23:53 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.19 2001/05/10 20:55:09 stelian Exp $
Need to verify:
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All others:
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-1. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one
- invocation, like the SunOS version.
+1. More documentation? Examples, crontab?
-2. 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. Explore and correct dump problems on active filesystems
- (lseek/read negative count).
-
-4. 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). 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
+4. 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).
+5. Extend the compression patch to use bzip2.
-7. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
+6. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...
-8. From Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>:
+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. Implement a -F option for restore.
+
+12. 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 ?
+
+13. Dump uses /dev/tty for reporting some messages. When invoked
+ from a script, /dev/tty may not exist. Why not using just
+ stderr ?