X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=dump.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=d98b59fa8b7f0063391717ba8584840dac969ede;hp=bdb4783621a4c7a07f5b64b62c8f39ac5c539ed8;hb=5bbb0926a5e765575c199573ea3b3d0f5ecd99a2;hpb=c930abff2469b9571a22fc49d16f50f36f5a9301 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index bdb4783..d98b59f 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.8 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou Exp $ +$Id: TODO,v 1.19 2001/05/10 20:55:09 stelian Exp $ Need to verify: --------------- @@ -13,30 +13,49 @@ 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). - -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. + +6. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... + +7. 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. + +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 + . + +10. Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc). -7. Add some support in dump and restore for numbering in sequence - the output files (when dumping to a file). Something like -N - which creates (or reads) -1, -2 etc... +11. Implement a -F option for restore. -8. Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible... +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 ?