Re: [Tracker] Inquiry into work required to support removable media

["Mike McWay" <mmcway gmail com>]

On 10/24/07, "Nikolai Weibull" <now bitwi se> wrote:
> According to
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2007-September/msg00055.html
>
> Jamie already has an idea of how to support removable media in
> tracker.  I'd like to see support for removable media added as soon as
> possible and would gladly help out.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions on removable-media support in tracker or
> suggestions on how to start off writing a patch for this, please do
> tell.
>
> Thanks!

Can imagine a scenario where there is a writable removable drive (USB
drive) used on several different computers running tracker. rather
than the duplication of having it indexed on each computer, it may be
more convenient to have db on the drive, have tracker recognize this,
and present search info to the user as if it were part of the larger
db.  sort of a plug-n-play db.

advantages:
- keeps local db slim without info that is used infrequently or never again.
- keeps tracker from needing to distinguish relevant data in index
from data on media not currently available

obviously wouldnt work with cds/dvds, but the amount of information on
them could be quickly indexed while my 250 GB USB drive would take
quite some time.  Would be instantly accessible in tracker with its
own db.