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

["Nikolai Weibull" <now bitwi se>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:

> Jamie McCracken wrote:

>  > 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.

I know Beagle stores URLs, not file paths.  That would be one way to
solve it.  Then you could add a new scheme for removable media, for
example, media://<device id>/<file path>.

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

What I really want is to be able to search for removeable media that
isn't currently connected, so that I can index my removable media,
disconnect them and then easily find out what to reconnect once I need
it.  I'm not quite sure if that's obvious or not.