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

["Nikolai Weibull" <now bitwi se>]

On 10/27/07, Mike McWay <mmcway gmail com> wrote:
> can see your reasoning for this, but we're still only considering a
> single user HD.  storing the db locally is fine in that case and would
> give unplugged searchability.
>
> In a case of a more mobile drive and single use scenarios, it may make
> sense to have a HD based index.  user could still have a local db that
> could sync with the HD index (or just the HD itself) allowing for
> unplugged search.
>
> Similarly for burned CDs and DVDs, could be convenient to create an
> index of the contents before burning, that would also be burned to
> disc.

To me it's a lot more useful to be able to find out what disc some
file is on, which would require that the index be stored on a
non-removed medium.