Re: [Tracker] Alternate volumes

[Bjoern Gruening <bjoern gruenings eu>]

Am Samstag, den 20.01.2007, 16:37 +0000 schrieb Jamie McCracken:
> jean-christophe haessig dianosis org wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if there are any provisions in Tracker to support
> > alternate volumes. Right now the user's home directory is indexed
> > by default, and it is possible to add more directories.
> >
> > However, in the case of a tree that resides on an encrypted volume,
> > it should be possible to put the index in the root of that tree,
> > because you don't want an attacker to get data about what is in that
> > volume.
>
> you can encrypt the $Home/.Tracker using FUSE encfs to avoid that
>
>
> > Similarly, when indexing removable media, users may want the index
> > o travel with the media, to be readily available anywhere.
>
> that is much harder for us to do and not all media will be writable. In 
> fact the lack of space on most of them will rule it out. We do want to 
> support network searches so maybe something can be done...
>
>
> > In the case of removable media also, the index could be kept in the
> > main database to enable searching files on offline volumes (this would
> > be particularly cool for backup archives). However, simple paths shouldn't
> > be used to locate these files because mount locations are not fixed.
>
> we will use HAL and the unique ID of the volume to update trackers 
> database with the corrected uri's automatically
>
> > In conclusion, it should also be possible to have multiple databases in
> > various locations, some of them may be made available/unavailable at any
> > time. It would also be cool if it was possible to index files in offline
> > media like cdroms and external drives.
>
> this bit is planned with HAL support but with one central database in 
> $Home - we will deactivate search results from it when volume with 
> registered id is not mounted

Is it possible that tracker can search for "offline-files" but the
tracker-gui indicates that the file is currently not available, or
better tracker points to the media (e.g. Samsung HDD 80GB) where to find
the file. 


> we already store a volume ID for all files so this is easy to do for us
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