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

[Bjoern Gruening <bjoern gruenings eu>]

Am Samstag, den 27.10.2007, 12:11 +0200 schrieb Khashayar Naderehvandi:
>         
>         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). 

I think it would be great to show all results. From not attached disk's,
too. So we can search e.g. on DVD/CD for backups we made.
Maybe with a hint in t-s-t that the disk is not present. 
Is it possible to add a user-defined-label to each HDD/DVD/CD we index?
E.g. "Photos07 - 2". 
So t-s-t can show something like: the picture is located on "Photos07 -
2"-DVD.

Regards,
bjoern


> 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. 
>
> Regards,
> K.
>
>
>         jamie
>         
>         
>         
>
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