Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:47 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
>
> > Be very careful with trying to put disparate kinds of data under the
> > same storage.
> >
> > Read these articles:
> > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
> > http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html
> >
> > And then consider whether you indeed want to put everything under the
> > same database.
> >
> > Global indexers: good.  We need that.
> >
> > Global metadata: good.  Does anyone but me miss the reliable, fast, and
> > simple metadata storage that we used in GNOME 1.2?
> >
> > A database to put everything because databases can store EVERYTHING:
> > bad.
>
> I agree 100%. This idea scares me to no end. We already have a database
> that can store everything, its called a "filesystem". Having a
> structured storage format for everything is just begging for problems in
> requirements mismatches and storage safety (backups, reliability,
> shared-nfs homedirs, etc).

I accept that and thats why tracker can do both (externally index or 
internal storage where it makes sense)

Obviously we need to find a balance where it is acceptable to internally 
store stuff.


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