1 is out of scope for what the tool is meant to do 2 is not a bad idea but you would need to also get the upstream developers to buy into the idea. Original Message From: ToddAndMargo Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 23:28 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: I asked Red Hat for two feature in xfsdump https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258189 1) back up a directory that is not a mount point 2) compression