Re: [Tracker] Some thoughts on tracker-extract interaction and error handling

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos lanedo com>]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 17:47 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> So I think the lowest common denominator would be to have
> tracker-miner-fs enter some "failsafe extraction" mode, where on
> extractor error:
>
> 1) file is added to a "failed extraction" list
> 1) the miner is paused
> 2) waits for all ongoing extractor replies
>   2a) if extraction failed, add files to the list too
> 3) goes through the list, request metadata again, one by one
>   3a) if request failed again, give up

FYI, this is currently implemented in extraction-improvements

Cheers,
  Carlos