X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=dump.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=a92865207a6eb1dbf302e5b4b3ff43a86027368a;hp=679f7243116f6730c0d3a7a1d4f15edded09a1e5;hb=80dea6355164a9c0231e8d7f4dcfb3fca0858f7d;hpb=0d7af9c5f2cc7d4a97e934692ea8665e09fd5500 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 679f724..a928652 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.12 2000/03/02 11:34:51 stelian Exp $ +$Id: TODO,v 1.23 2001/08/16 15:24:21 stelian Exp $ Need to verify: --------------- @@ -13,32 +13,36 @@ 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. +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) (This should be OK as of 0.4b14). - -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). - -7. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... +5. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... -8. From Kjetil Torgrim Homme : +6. From Kjetil Torgrim Homme : 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. + +7. EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev + . + +8. Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc). + +9. 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 ?