Hi,
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 at 19:29 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is the current "TODO/wishlist" for FWCF, taken directly
> from rev. 1.18 of fwcf.txt,v - comments added inline:
>
> | * An additional checksum (probably ADLER32 as well) shall be
> | placed inside the compressed portion, to be checked after
> | decompression. The idea of adding a random IV has not been
> | adopted because we pretty much want the same FWCF blocks,
> | except the random padding at the end, to be generated for
> | the same input data. (This is not guaranteed because fts()
> | may traverse the directory hierarchy differently.)
>
> This is stuff for 2.00 because it changes the format. Future.
>
> | * Revisit the current size limits and file types.
>
> This is too unspecific to be done. Think of it as a discussion
> starting point.
>
> | * Implement a file type "deleted", to enable the user to
> | remove a file from the underlying (squashfs) repository.
>
> This is, of course, a format change, thus for 2.00.
>
> | * Some kind of "reboot hook": check if the filesystem has
> | been changed after the last 'fwcf commit' operation. (What
> | exactly is a change? Do we take care of mtimes? Currently,
> | we're tending to a list of MD5 hashes for the files in the
> | filesystem, ignoring all non-regular files.)
>
> This could make it into a version 1.10 of fwcf, to be
> delivered with FreeWRT trunk -> 1.1.0 later.
I even would like to backport this to latest 1.0x version.
> | * "fwcf dump", "fwcf restore" (even for 1.x)
>
> This is something which I'd make a version 1.02 of fwcf out
> of, in order to pack it into FreeWRT 1.0.2 since I think it's
> useful to have a backup format that can be transferred to
> another computer or even be kept over updates.
>
> How about it?
Sounds okay for me.
bye
Waldemar
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