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46ef7d1d | 1 | -*- indented-text -*- |
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259c3e72 | 3 | BUGS --------------------------------------------------------------- |
abb0b532 | 4 | Do not rely on having a group called "nobody" |
abb0b532 S |
5 | |
6 | FEATURES ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
abb0b532 S |
7 | Use chroot only if supported |
8 | Allow supplementary groups in rsyncd.conf 2002/04/09 | |
9 | Handling IPv6 on old machines | |
10 | Other IPv6 stuff: | |
11 | Add ACL support 2001/12/02 | |
12 | Lazy directory creation | |
abb0b532 S |
13 | proxy authentication 2002/01/23 |
14 | SOCKS 2002/01/23 | |
15 | FAT support | |
16 | Allow forcing arbitrary permissions 2002/03/12 | |
17 | --diff david.e.sewell 2002/03/15 | |
22832c30 | 18 | Add daemon --no-fork option |
16a3fec0 | 19 | Create more granular verbosity jw 2003/05/15 |
abb0b532 S |
20 | |
21 | DOCUMENTATION -------------------------------------------------------- | |
abb0b532 | 22 | Keep list of open issues and todos on the web site |
abb0b532 S |
23 | Perhaps redo manual as SGML |
24 | ||
25 | LOGGING -------------------------------------------------------------- | |
abb0b532 S |
26 | Memory accounting |
27 | Improve error messages | |
28 | Better statistics: Rasmus 2002/03/08 | |
29 | Perhaps flush stdout like syslog | |
30 | Log deamon sessions that just list modules | |
31 | Log child death on signal | |
abb0b532 S |
32 | Log errors with function that reports process of origin |
33 | verbose output David Stein 2001/12/20 | |
abb0b532 S |
34 | internationalization |
35 | ||
36 | DEVELOPMENT -------------------------------------------------------- | |
37 | Handling duplicate names | |
38 | Use generic zlib 2002/02/25 | |
39 | TDB: 2002/03/12 | |
40 | Splint 2002/03/12 | |
abb0b532 S |
41 | |
42 | PERFORMANCE ---------------------------------------------------------- | |
43 | File list structure in memory | |
44 | Traverse just one directory at a time | |
abb0b532 S |
45 | Allow skipping MD4 file_sum 2002/04/08 |
46 | Accelerate MD4 | |
abb0b532 S |
47 | |
48 | TESTING -------------------------------------------------------------- | |
49 | Torture test | |
50 | Cross-test versions 2001/08/22 | |
51 | Test on kernel source | |
52 | Test large files | |
53 | Create mutator program for testing | |
54 | Create configure option to enable dangerous tests | |
55 | If tests are skipped, say why. | |
56 | Test daemon feature to disallow particular options. | |
57 | Create pipe program for testing | |
58 | Create test makefile target for some tests | |
abb0b532 S |
59 | |
60 | RELATED PROJECTS ----------------------------------------------------- | |
61 | rsyncsh | |
62 | http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/ | |
63 | rsyncable gzip patch | |
64 | rsyncsplit as alternative to real integration with gzip? | |
65 | reverse rsync over HTTP Range | |
66 | ||
259c3e72 | 67 | |
abb0b532 S |
68 | |
69 | BUGS --------------------------------------------------------------- | |
70 | ||
5ba268ef | 71 | |
8bd1a73e MP |
72 | Do not rely on having a group called "nobody" |
73 | ||
74 | http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.1.0/gLSB/usernames.html | |
75 | ||
76 | On Debian it's "nogroup" | |
e4724e5c | 77 | |
abb0b532 | 78 | -- -- |
b3e6c815 | 79 | |
abb0b532 | 80 | FEATURES ------------------------------------------------------------ |
a6a3c3df | 81 | |
a6a3c3df | 82 | |
abb0b532 | 83 | Use chroot only if supported |
a6a3c3df | 84 | |
abb0b532 | 85 | If the platform doesn't support it, then don't even try. |
a6a3c3df | 86 | |
abb0b532 S |
87 | If running as non-root, then don't fail, just give a warning. |
88 | (There was a thread about this a while ago?) | |
a6a3c3df | 89 | |
abb0b532 S |
90 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-August/thread.html |
91 | http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-September/thread.html | |
a6a3c3df | 92 | |
abb0b532 | 93 | -- -- |
a6a3c3df | 94 | |
a6a3c3df | 95 | |
abb0b532 | 96 | Allow supplementary groups in rsyncd.conf 2002/04/09 |
a6a3c3df | 97 | |
abb0b532 S |
98 | Perhaps allow supplementary groups to be specified in rsyncd.conf; |
99 | then make the first one the primary gid and all the rest be | |
100 | supplementary gids. | |
a2d2e5c0 | 101 | |
abb0b532 | 102 | -- -- |
a2d2e5c0 | 103 | |
bde47ca7 | 104 | |
411acbbc | 105 | Handling IPv6 on old machines |
bde47ca7 | 106 | |
411acbbc MP |
107 | The KAME IPv6 patch is nice in theory but has proved a bit of a |
108 | nightmare in practice. The basic idea of their patch is that rsync | |
109 | is rewritten to use the new getaddrinfo()/getnameinfo() interface, | |
110 | rather than gethostbyname()/gethostbyaddr() as in rsync 2.4.6. | |
111 | Systems that don't have the new interface are handled by providing | |
112 | our own implementation in lib/, which is selectively linked in. | |
c7d692c3 | 113 | |
411acbbc MP |
114 | The problem with this is that it is really hard to get right on |
115 | platforms that have a half-working implementation, so redefining | |
116 | these functions clashes with system headers, and leaving them out | |
117 | breaks. This affects at least OSF/1, RedHat 5, and Cobalt, which | |
118 | are moderately improtant. | |
119 | ||
120 | Perhaps the simplest solution would be to have two different files | |
121 | implementing the same interface, and choose either the new or the | |
122 | old API. This is probably necessary for systems that e.g. have | |
123 | IPv6, but gethostbyaddr() can't handle it. The Linux manpage claims | |
124 | this is currently the case. | |
125 | ||
126 | In fact, our internal sockets interface (things like | |
127 | open_socket_out(), etc) is much narrower than the getaddrinfo() | |
128 | interface, and so probably simpler to get right. In addition, the | |
129 | old code is known to work well on old machines. | |
130 | ||
131 | We could drop the rather large lib/getaddrinfo files. | |
132 | ||
abb0b532 S |
133 | -- -- |
134 | ||
411acbbc MP |
135 | |
136 | Other IPv6 stuff: | |
137 | ||
c33e3e39 MP |
138 | Implement suggestions from http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/ |
139 | and ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/RFC/rfc2553.txt | |
140 | ||
141 | If a host has multiple addresses, then listen try to connect to all | |
142 | in order until we get through. (getaddrinfo may return multiple | |
c10b0bdd | 143 | addresses.) This is kind of implemented already. |
c33e3e39 MP |
144 | |
145 | Possibly also when starting as a server we may need to listen on | |
146 | multiple passive addresses. This might be a bit harder, because we | |
147 | may need to select on all of them. Hm. | |
148 | ||
a2d2e5c0 MP |
149 | Define a syntax for IPv6 literal addresses. Since they include |
150 | colons, they tend to break most naming systems, including ours. | |
151 | Based on the HTTP IPv6 syntax, I think we should use | |
152 | ||
a577af90 | 153 | rsync://[::1]/foo/bar [::1]::bar |
a2d2e5c0 MP |
154 | |
155 | which should just take a small change to the parser code. | |
156 | ||
abb0b532 | 157 | -- -- |
b17dd0c4 MP |
158 | |
159 | ||
abb0b532 | 160 | Add ACL support 2001/12/02 |
5575de14 | 161 | |
5575de14 MP |
162 | Transfer ACLs. Need to think of a standard representation. |
163 | Probably better not to even try to convert between NT and POSIX. | |
164 | Possibly can share some code with Samba. | |
80ffc3de | 165 | NOTE: there is a patch that implements this in the "patches" subdir. |
5aafd07b | 166 | |
abb0b532 S |
167 | -- -- |
168 | ||
169 | ||
170 | Lazy directory creation | |
28a69e25 MP |
171 | |
172 | With the current common --include '*/' --exclude '*' pattern, people | |
173 | can end up with many empty directories. We might avoid this by | |
174 | lazily creating such directories. | |
175 | ||
abb0b532 | 176 | -- -- |
c6e27b60 | 177 | |
28a69e25 | 178 | |
abb0b532 | 179 | proxy authentication 2002/01/23 |
92325ada MP |
180 | |
181 | Allow RSYNC_PROXY to be http://user:pass@proxy.foo:3128/, and do | |
a577af90 | 182 | HTTP Basic Proxy-Authentication. |
92325ada MP |
183 | |
184 | Multiple schemes are possible, up to and including the insanity that | |
185 | is NTLM, but Basic probably covers most cases. | |
186 | ||
abb0b532 S |
187 | -- -- |
188 | ||
189 | ||
190 | SOCKS 2002/01/23 | |
92325ada MP |
191 | |
192 | Add --with-socks, and then perhaps a command-line option to put them | |
193 | on or off. This might be more reliable than LD_PRELOAD hacks. | |
194 | ||
abb0b532 S |
195 | -- -- |
196 | ||
197 | ||
5ba268ef MP |
198 | FAT support |
199 | ||
a577af90 PG |
200 | rsync to a FAT partition on a Unix machine doesn't work very well at |
201 | the moment. I think we get errors about invalid filenames and | |
5ba268ef MP |
202 | perhaps also trying to do atomic renames. |
203 | ||
a577af90 PG |
204 | I guess the code to do this is currently #ifdef'd on Windows; |
205 | perhaps we ought to intelligently fall back to it on Unix too. | |
5ba268ef | 206 | |
abb0b532 | 207 | -- -- |
5ba268ef | 208 | |
27741d9f | 209 | |
abb0b532 | 210 | Allow forcing arbitrary permissions 2002/03/12 |
e53fe9a2 | 211 | |
abb0b532 S |
212 | On 12 Mar 2002, Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com> wrote: |
213 | > If we would add an option to do that functionality, I | |
214 | > would vote for one that was more general which could mask | |
215 | > off any set of permission bits and possibly add any set of | |
216 | > bits. Perhaps a chmod-like syntax if it could be | |
217 | > implemented simply. | |
97e1254a | 218 | |
a577af90 | 219 | I think that would be good too. For example, people uploading files |
97e1254a MP |
220 | to a web server might like to say |
221 | ||
222 | rsync -avzP --chmod a+rX ./ sourcefrog.net:/home/www/sourcefrog/ | |
223 | ||
224 | Ideally the patch would implement as many of the gnu chmod semantics | |
225 | as possible. I think the mode parser should be a separate function | |
a577af90 PG |
226 | that passes back something like (mask,set) description to the rest |
227 | of the program. For bonus points there would be a test case for the | |
97e1254a MP |
228 | parser. |
229 | ||
8bd1a73e MP |
230 | Possibly also --chown |
231 | ||
36692011 MP |
232 | (Debian #23628) |
233 | ||
80ffc3de WD |
234 | NOTE: there is a patch that implements this in the "patches" subdir. |
235 | ||
abb0b532 | 236 | -- -- |
97e1254a | 237 | |
abb0b532 S |
238 | |
239 | --diff david.e.sewell 2002/03/15 | |
3c1edccb MP |
240 | |
241 | Allow people to specify the diff command. (Might want to use wdiff, | |
242 | gnudiff, etc.) | |
243 | ||
244 | Just diff the temporary file with the destination file, and delete | |
245 | the tmp file rather than moving it into place. | |
246 | ||
247 | Interaction with --partial. | |
248 | ||
249 | Security interactions with daemon mode? | |
250 | ||
abb0b532 | 251 | -- -- |
3c1edccb MP |
252 | |
253 | ||
22832c30 | 254 | Add daemon --no-fork option |
a628b069 | 255 | |
abb0b532 S |
256 | Very useful for debugging. Also good when running under a |
257 | daemon-monitoring process that tries to restart the service when the | |
258 | parent exits. | |
6d19c674 | 259 | |
abb0b532 | 260 | -- -- |
6d19c674 | 261 | |
16a3fec0 S |
262 | |
263 | Create more granular verbosity jw 2003/05/15 | |
264 | ||
265 | Control output with the --report option. | |
266 | ||
267 | The option takes as a single argument (no whitespace) a | |
268 | comma delimited lists of keywords. | |
269 | ||
270 | This would separate debugging from "logging" as well as | |
271 | fine grained selection of statistical reporting and what | |
272 | actions are logged. | |
273 | ||
274 | http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2003-May/006059.html | |
275 | ||
276 | -- -- | |
277 | ||
abb0b532 | 278 | DOCUMENTATION -------------------------------------------------------- |
6d19c674 | 279 | |
6479c2ed | 280 | |
abb0b532 | 281 | Keep list of open issues and todos on the web site |
bd0ad74f | 282 | |
abb0b532 | 283 | -- -- |
bd0ad74f | 284 | |
bd0ad74f | 285 | |
abb0b532 | 286 | Perhaps redo manual as SGML |
bd0ad74f | 287 | |
abb0b532 S |
288 | The man page is getting rather large, and there is more information |
289 | that ought to be added. | |
bd0ad74f | 290 | |
abb0b532 | 291 | TexInfo source is probably a dying format. |
6479c2ed | 292 | |
abb0b532 S |
293 | Linuxdoc looks like the most likely contender. I know DocBook is |
294 | favoured by some people, but it's so bloody verbose, even with emacs | |
295 | support. | |
a628b069 | 296 | |
abb0b532 | 297 | -- -- |
a2d2e5c0 | 298 | |
abb0b532 | 299 | LOGGING -------------------------------------------------------------- |
a2d2e5c0 | 300 | |
abb0b532 S |
301 | |
302 | Memory accounting | |
303 | ||
304 | At exit, show how much memory was used for the file list, etc. | |
305 | ||
306 | Also we do a wierd exponential-growth allocation in flist.c. I'm | |
307 | not sure this makes sense with modern mallocs. At any rate it will | |
308 | make us allocate a huge amount of memory for large file lists. | |
309 | ||
310 | -- -- | |
311 | ||
312 | ||
313 | Improve error messages | |
314 | ||
315 | If we hang or get SIGINT, then explain where we were up to. Perhaps | |
316 | have a static buffer that contains the current function name, or | |
317 | some kind of description of what we were trying to do. This is a | |
318 | little easier on people than needing to run strace/truss. | |
319 | ||
320 | "The dungeon collapses! You are killed." Rather than "unexpected | |
321 | eof" give a message that is more detailed if possible and also more | |
322 | helpful. | |
323 | ||
324 | If we get an error writing to a socket, then we should perhaps | |
325 | continue trying to read to see if an error message comes across | |
326 | explaining why the socket is closed. I'm not sure if this would | |
327 | work, but it would certainly make our messages more helpful. | |
328 | ||
329 | What happens if a directory is missing -x attributes. Do we lose | |
330 | our load? (Debian #28416) Probably fixed now, but a test case would | |
331 | be good. | |
a2d2e5c0 | 332 | |
96fb478e WD |
333 | When running as a daemon, some errors should both be returned to the |
334 | user and logged. This will make interacting with a daemon less | |
335 | cryptic. | |
5ba268ef | 336 | |
abb0b532 | 337 | -- -- |
0e23e41d | 338 | |
abb0b532 S |
339 | |
340 | Better statistics: Rasmus 2002/03/08 | |
341 | ||
342 | <Rasmus> | |
343 | hey, how about an rsync option that just gives you the | |
344 | summary without the list of files? And perhaps gives | |
345 | more information like the number of new files, number | |
346 | of changed, deleted, etc. ? | |
347 | ||
348 | <mbp> | |
349 | nice idea there is --stats but at the moment it's very | |
350 | tridge-oriented rather than user-friendly it would be | |
351 | nice to improve it that would also work well with | |
352 | --dryrun | |
353 | ||
354 | -- -- | |
355 | ||
356 | ||
357 | Perhaps flush stdout like syslog | |
358 | ||
359 | Perhaps flush stdout after each filename, so that people trying to | |
360 | monitor progress in a log file can do so more easily. See | |
361 | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=48108 | |
362 | ||
363 | -- -- | |
364 | ||
365 | ||
366 | Log deamon sessions that just list modules | |
367 | ||
368 | At the connections that just get a list of modules are not logged, | |
369 | but they should be. | |
370 | ||
371 | -- -- | |
372 | ||
373 | ||
374 | Log child death on signal | |
375 | ||
376 | If a child of the rsync daemon dies with a signal, we should notice | |
377 | that when we reap it and log a message. | |
378 | ||
379 | -- -- | |
380 | ||
381 | ||
abb0b532 S |
382 | Log errors with function that reports process of origin |
383 | ||
384 | Use a separate function for reporting errors; prefix it with | |
385 | "rsync:" or "rsync(remote)", or perhaps even "rsync(local | |
386 | generator): ". | |
387 | ||
388 | -- -- | |
389 | ||
390 | ||
391 | verbose output David Stein 2001/12/20 | |
392 | ||
abb0b532 S |
393 | At end of transfer, show how many files were or were not transferred |
394 | correctly. | |
395 | ||
396 | -- -- | |
397 | ||
398 | ||
abb0b532 S |
399 | internationalization |
400 | ||
401 | Change to using gettext(). Probably need to ship this for platforms | |
402 | that don't have it. | |
403 | ||
404 | Solicit translations. | |
405 | ||
406 | Does anyone care? Before we bother modifying the code, we ought to | |
407 | get the manual translated first, because that's possibly more useful | |
408 | and at any rate demonstrates desire. | |
409 | ||
410 | -- -- | |
411 | ||
412 | DEVELOPMENT -------------------------------------------------------- | |
413 | ||
414 | Handling duplicate names | |
415 | ||
80ffc3de WD |
416 | Some folks would like rsync to be deterministic in how it handles |
417 | duplicate names that come from mering multiple source directories | |
418 | into a single destination directory; e.g. the last name wins. We | |
419 | could do this by switching our sort algorithm to one that will | |
420 | guarantee that the names won't be reordered. Alternately, we could | |
421 | assign an ever-increasing number to each item as we insert it into | |
422 | the list and then make sure that we leave the largest number when | |
423 | cleaning the file list (see clean_flist()). Another solution would | |
424 | be to add a hash table, and thus never put any duplicate names into | |
425 | the file list (and bump the protocol to handle this). | |
abb0b532 S |
426 | |
427 | -- -- | |
428 | ||
429 | ||
430 | Use generic zlib 2002/02/25 | |
431 | ||
432 | Perhaps don't use our own zlib. | |
433 | ||
434 | Advantages: | |
435 | ||
436 | - will automatically be up to date with bugfixes in zlib | |
437 | ||
438 | - can leave it out for small rsync on e.g. recovery disks | |
439 | ||
440 | - can use a shared library | |
441 | ||
442 | - avoids people breaking rsync by trying to do this themselves and | |
443 | messing up | |
444 | ||
445 | Should we ship zlib for systems that don't have it, or require | |
446 | people to install it separately? | |
447 | ||
448 | Apparently this will make us incompatible with versions of rsync | |
449 | that use the patched version of rsync. Probably the simplest way to | |
450 | do this is to just disable gzip (with a warning) when talking to old | |
451 | versions. | |
452 | ||
453 | -- -- | |
454 | ||
455 | ||
456 | TDB: 2002/03/12 | |
457 | ||
458 | Rather than storing the file list in memory, store it in a TDB. | |
459 | ||
460 | This *might* make memory usage lower while building the file list. | |
461 | ||
462 | Hashtable lookup will mean files are not transmitted in order, | |
463 | though... hm. | |
464 | ||
465 | This would neatly eliminate one of the major post-fork shared data | |
466 | structures. | |
467 | ||
468 | -- -- | |
469 | ||
470 | ||
471 | Splint 2002/03/12 | |
0e23e41d MP |
472 | |
473 | Build rsync with SPLINT to try to find security holes. Add | |
474 | annotations as necessary. Keep track of the number of warnings | |
475 | found initially, and see how many of them are real bugs, or real | |
476 | security bugs. Knowing the percentage of likely hits would be | |
477 | really interesting for other projects. | |
478 | ||
abb0b532 | 479 | -- -- |
f5a95bb5 | 480 | |
abb0b532 | 481 | PERFORMANCE ---------------------------------------------------------- |
25ff30e8 | 482 | |
abb0b532 | 483 | File list structure in memory |
25ff30e8 | 484 | |
abb0b532 S |
485 | Rather than one big array, perhaps have a tree in memory mirroring |
486 | the directory tree. | |
25ff30e8 | 487 | |
abb0b532 S |
488 | This might make sorting much faster! (I'm not sure it's a big CPU |
489 | problem, mind you.) | |
25ff30e8 | 490 | |
abb0b532 S |
491 | It might also reduce memory use in storing repeated directory names |
492 | -- again I'm not sure this is a problem. | |
e9c4c301 | 493 | |
abb0b532 | 494 | -- -- |
e9c4c301 | 495 | |
e9c4c301 | 496 | |
abb0b532 | 497 | Traverse just one directory at a time |
e9c4c301 | 498 | |
abb0b532 | 499 | Traverse just one directory at a time. Tridge says it's possible. |
e9c4c301 | 500 | |
abb0b532 S |
501 | At the moment rsync reads the whole file list into memory at the |
502 | start, which makes us use a lot of memory and also not pipeline | |
503 | network access as much as we could. | |
e9c4c301 | 504 | |
abb0b532 | 505 | -- -- |
b73b51a9 | 506 | |
599dc93c | 507 | |
abb0b532 | 508 | Allow skipping MD4 file_sum 2002/04/08 |
33d213bb | 509 | |
abb0b532 S |
510 | If we're doing a local transfer, or using -W, then perhaps don't |
511 | send the file checksum. If we're doing a local transfer, then | |
512 | calculating MD4 checksums uses 90% of CPU and is unlikely to be | |
513 | useful. | |
5aafd07b | 514 | |
80ffc3de WD |
515 | We should not allow it to be disabled separately from -W, though |
516 | as it is the only thing that lets us know when the rsync algorithm | |
517 | got out of sync and messed the file up (i.e. if the basis file | |
518 | changed between checksum generation and reception). | |
a2d2e5c0 | 519 | |
abb0b532 | 520 | -- -- |
a2d2e5c0 | 521 | |
62b68c80 | 522 | |
abb0b532 | 523 | Accelerate MD4 |
62b68c80 | 524 | |
abb0b532 | 525 | Perhaps borrow an assembler MD4 from someone? |
62b68c80 | 526 | |
abb0b532 S |
527 | Make sure we call MD4 with properly-sized blocks whenever possible |
528 | to avoid copying into the residue region? | |
a2d2e5c0 | 529 | |
abb0b532 | 530 | -- -- |
50f2f002 | 531 | |
abb0b532 | 532 | TESTING -------------------------------------------------------------- |
8ff9d697 | 533 | |
abb0b532 | 534 | Torture test |
8ff9d697 | 535 | |
abb0b532 S |
536 | Something that just keeps running rsync continuously over a data set |
537 | likely to generate problems. | |
8ff9d697 | 538 | |
abb0b532 | 539 | -- -- |
62b68c80 | 540 | |
62b68c80 | 541 | |
abb0b532 | 542 | Cross-test versions 2001/08/22 |
62b68c80 | 543 | |
abb0b532 S |
544 | Part of the regression suite should be making sure that we |
545 | don't break backwards compatibility: old clients vs new | |
546 | servers and so on. Ideally we would test both up and down | |
547 | from the current release to all old versions. | |
62b68c80 | 548 | |
abb0b532 | 549 | Run current rsync versions against significant past releases. |
3d90ec14 | 550 | |
abb0b532 S |
551 | We might need to omit broken old versions, or versions in which |
552 | particular functionality is broken | |
a2d2e5c0 | 553 | |
abb0b532 S |
554 | It might be sufficient to test downloads from well-known public |
555 | rsync servers running different versions of rsync. This will give | |
556 | some testing and also be the most common case for having different | |
557 | versions and not being able to upgrade. | |
a2d2e5c0 | 558 | |
abb0b532 | 559 | The new --protocol option may help in this. |
a2d2e5c0 | 560 | |
abb0b532 S |
561 | -- -- |
562 | ||
563 | ||
564 | Test on kernel source | |
565 | ||
566 | Download all versions of kernel; unpack, sync between them. Also | |
567 | sync between uncompressed tarballs. Compare directories after | |
568 | transfer. | |
569 | ||
570 | Use local mode; ssh; daemon; --whole-file and --no-whole-file. | |
571 | ||
572 | Use awk to pull out the 'speedup' number for each transfer. Make | |
573 | sure it is >= x. | |
574 | ||
575 | -- -- | |
576 | ||
577 | ||
578 | Test large files | |
579 | ||
580 | Sparse and non-sparse | |
581 | ||
582 | -- -- | |
583 | ||
584 | ||
585 | Create mutator program for testing | |
586 | ||
587 | Insert bytes, delete bytes, swap blocks, ... | |
588 | ||
589 | -- -- | |
590 | ||
591 | ||
592 | Create configure option to enable dangerous tests | |
593 | ||
594 | -- -- | |
595 | ||
596 | ||
597 | If tests are skipped, say why. | |
598 | ||
599 | -- -- | |
600 | ||
601 | ||
602 | Test daemon feature to disallow particular options. | |
603 | ||
604 | -- -- | |
605 | ||
606 | ||
607 | Create pipe program for testing | |
608 | ||
609 | Create pipe program that makes slow/jerky connections for | |
610 | testing Versions of read() and write() that corrupt the | |
611 | stream, or abruptly fail | |
612 | ||
613 | -- -- | |
614 | ||
615 | ||
616 | Create test makefile target for some tests | |
617 | ||
618 | Separate makefile target to run rough tests -- or perhaps | |
619 | just run them every time? | |
620 | ||
621 | -- -- | |
622 | ||
abb0b532 | 623 | RELATED PROJECTS ----------------------------------------------------- |
3d90ec14 | 624 | |
a577af90 | 625 | rsyncsh |
46ef7d1d MP |
626 | |
627 | Write a small emulation of interactive ftp as a Pythonn program | |
628 | that calls rsync. Commands such as "cd", "ls", "ls *.c" etc map | |
629 | fairly directly into rsync commands: it just needs to remember the | |
630 | current host, directory and so on. We can probably even do | |
631 | completion of remote filenames. | |
25ff30e8 | 632 | |
abb0b532 | 633 | -- -- |
25ff30e8 | 634 | |
25ff30e8 MP |
635 | |
636 | http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/ | |
637 | ||
abb0b532 S |
638 | |
639 | -- -- | |
640 | ||
641 | ||
25ff30e8 MP |
642 | rsyncable gzip patch |
643 | ||
644 | Exhaustive, tortuous testing | |
645 | ||
646 | Cleanups? | |
647 | ||
abb0b532 S |
648 | -- -- |
649 | ||
650 | ||
25ff30e8 MP |
651 | rsyncsplit as alternative to real integration with gzip? |
652 | ||
abb0b532 S |
653 | -- -- |
654 | ||
655 | ||
25ff30e8 MP |
656 | reverse rsync over HTTP Range |
657 | ||
658 | Goswin Brederlow suggested this on Debian; I think tridge and I | |
659 | talked about it previous in relation to rproxy. | |
a577af90 | 660 | |
80ffc3de WD |
661 | Addendum: It looks like someone is working on a version of this: |
662 | ||
663 | http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ | |
664 | ||
abb0b532 | 665 | -- -- |
a577af90 | 666 |