From c248397b219f81ff49f41f07cdc7d58d6f629b50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Mazzoleni <amadvance@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:23:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Adds initial TODO list

---
 Makefile.am |  2 +-
 TODO        | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 TODO

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 549301f3..a7aee0e9 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ mktest_SOURCES = \
 EXTRA_DIST = \
 	autogen.sh \
 	noautomake.sh \
-	README AUTHORS HISTORY INSTALL COPYING \
+	README AUTHORS HISTORY INSTALL COPYING TODO \
 	snapraid.d snapraid.1 snapraid.txt snapraid.html \
 	test.conf \
 	snapraid.conf.example \
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cba0dfec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TODO
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+SnapRAID TODO
+=============
+
+This is a list of possible TODO for SnapRAID. The order is not relevant.
+
+* Add RAID6 redundancy support.
+There is the very good raid6 library from H. Peter Anvin (hpa) in the Linux Kernel ready to use:
+See:
+http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf
+http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.38/lib/raid6
+
+* Go multithread. We can do it when reading the new state (scan.c) and when syncing (sync.c)
+
+* Implement a faster XOR implementation using SSE2.
+
+* Search for a faster MD5 implementation if exists.
+
+* Evaluate to change from MD5 to FVN HASH.
+See:
+http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/fnv/
+http://cessu.blogspot.com/2007/09/hashing-with-sse2.html (SSE implementation)
+http://isthe.com/chongo/src/fnv/hash_64a.c (C implementation)
+
+* Use the O_NOATIME flag if run as 'root'.
+Anyway a better solution is to mount the disk with the "noatime" and "nodiratime" options.
+
+* During a sync operation periodicallly save the state to do not lose the job done in case of a system crash.