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.
| * "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?
bye,
//mirabile
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