Recent changes to feature-requests

Get all namespaces from DataStore

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:28:16 -0000

Add the option to get datastore namespace list .

Change compress_sparse to warn if chunk MD5 sums don't match

J. Scott Edwards — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:37:07 -0000

Change compress_sparse program to verify MD5 sums and warn if any are incorrect.

Change import_file to calculate total size needed

J. Scott Edwards — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:53:04 -0000

Change the import_file to accumulate the total size that will be needed and verify there is enough space for all files before proceeding. (Maybe have option to force it to do what it can?)

Add a backup computer feature

J. Scott Edwards — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:11:57 -0000

Create a new backup feature where instead of backing up all of the files that were part of the GNU/Linux distribution it just stores the id of that public file, that way it only has to store the data for the files that are unique to that computer. Could also have public directory trees for the distribution (for example: /usr) so you wouldn't have to store the entire tree just the id of that tree. This could also be used to verify that there were not any unknown files on your machine.

Change name of sequence table to swizzle table

J. Scott Edwards — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:24:42 -0000

Go through the code and change the name of the sequence table to swizzle table because in the future it will be able to be a random swizzle instead of generated by the sequence generator.

Have a contest to see if anyone can crack the swizzle

J. Scott Edwards — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:04:30 -0000

After feature request #1848641 (store key on USB stick) is completed, have a contest to see if anyone can crack it. My thought is to import a small raw pcm file of a snippet recorded from a vinyl LP with pops and clicks. The file should be almost the length of the sequence table (4096 * 244 = 999,424 bytes). Provide the compressed file of the archive, the password, and the key file with the last block of the swizzle table changed from the real swizzle information to 08, 09, 0a, etc. So essentially, the file can be exported except for the last block. The winner is the first person to send the complete file.

Store Audio CD images as wave files

J. Scott Edwards — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:27:15 -0000

This will allow them to stored in less space, see Feature Request #2392633.

Store ISO files broken down into pieces

J. Scott Edwards — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:24:14 -0000

Store any ISO files (public ones only?) broken down into the separate files they contain. See if Jigdo code can be used to accomplish this feat. This will likely allow them to be stored in much less space because for exampe all of the Ubuntu .iso files for a given release likely share many files.

Store wave files as flac files

J. Scott Edwards — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:20:02 -0000

Use flac to normally store .wav files as .flac files. Have an option to force it to store the wave file data? Check time to restore and automatically turn wave files into flac files if they haven't been used in some time.

Store documents in pieces

J. Scott Edwards — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:59:30 -0000

Store documents as broken down objects. Take for example a statement from the power company. They print their statement in the same format every month. Store a blank document (this is a public object). Then store the font they use, (doesn't have to have a name, just store the fonts) these are public again. Then store the numbers as number objects and the text as words. Need to worry about the positioning.