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

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:11 +0200, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
>         
>         I will think about supporting multiple indexes in different
>         places  - it
>         can affect performance though so need to be careful 
>         
>         currently only one index in home is supported
>
> I've been very interested in having this functionality as well, but
> not so much in order to save space as for the mere fact of being able
> to plug in a USB stick or external hard drive and receive search
> results through tracker. 
> I imagine it would be easier to go about like this: 
>
> 1) USB device is attached
> 2) Tracker retrieves the disk's UUID and starts indexing the content
> 3) When the disk is detached, the data is not erased from the
> database. Rather tracker-search does not return results from the
> mounted path if a disk with the corresponding UUID is not attached
> (this information, I presume, can be retrieved from hal). 
> 4) next time the disk is attached tracker crawls it's filesystem.
>
> The database can be kept in $HOME.
>  
> Even this approach (as opposed to the original suggestion) would
> result in a fantastic feature. However, I'm no programmer and there
> might very well be technical problems with this approach that makes it
> unviable. 

we already have support for enabling/disabling files based on HAL UDI
volumes for this

only thing needed is 2 and 4

jamie