Re: [Tracker] [Fwd: Plans for 0.7]

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 09:40 +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jamie McCracken
> > <jamie mccrack googlemail com> wrote:
> >
> > >  From: Ivan Frade <ivan frade nokia com>
> > >   I prepared a small diagram to clarify the intended architecture for
> > >  tracker 0.7. I think that a diagram like this can be very useful to
> > >  understand all required refactorings.
> > Does the addition of indexing of removable media affect this in any
> > way?  I would really like to see that added.  I'd gladly help out, as
> > I've already mentioned, but the only real response I got back then was
> > that there were a couple of ideas for how that was to be added, but
> > nothing concrete.
>
> we will definitely expand hal support for removable media

I have actually got a HAL patch which does this. There is one problem
with the implementation of our HAL patch and the tracker design - it
stores things based on file location. This is all well and good for a
lot of things, but when it comes to removable media really you can't
just count on the path. You really need to use the device ID which is
HAL can tell us about.

What is needed as far as I understand it, is to improve the database
storage to include such information so we know if device foo mounted on
/media/sdcard is actually the same as device bar which may also be
mounted in the same place.

This would greatly improve searching removable devices (after their
initial indexing of course).

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Regards,
Martyn