From 8590d6133f79f8701243d9a9605d5336581ab2e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stelian Pop Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:51:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added the need for a DEBUG option (not forking on each tape). --- TODO | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 2b3cc07..05e9a81 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,32 +1,45 @@ -$Id: TODO,v 1.5 1999/11/02 09:35:55 tiniou Exp $ +$Id: TODO,v 1.6 1999/11/17 22:51:27 tiniou Exp $ + +Need to verify: +--------------- + +1. Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success + reports) + +2. 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): +------------------------------------------- 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. -2. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one - invocation, like the SunOS version. +All others: +----------- -3. Verify that dump works correctly on rev 1 ext2fses (need success - reports) +1. Make dump able to backup several directories and/or files in one + invocation, like the SunOS version. -4. More documentation? Examples, crontab? +2. More documentation? Examples, crontab? -5. 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. - -6. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active +3. Explore and correct dump problems on a 4GB+ active filesystem (lseek/read negative count). -7. Clean-up the code by removing all those #ifdef _BSD, +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... -8. Reimplement the ext2 specific code in a "backend" and +5. 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). + +6. Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making + it able to debug dump with gdb. + -- 2.39.2