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$Id: TODO,v 1.24 2002/01/25 14:59:53 stelian Exp $

Need to verify:
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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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All others:
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1.	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.	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.

4.	Implement a DEBUG option which doesn't fork on each tape, making
	it able to debug dump with gdb.

5.	Make a bootable dump tape? I don't know if it is possible...

6.	EA/ACL support in dump (requested by Michael Ju. Tokarev 
	<mjt@tls.msk.ru>.

7.	Better readline completition in restore (escape spaces etc).