Hi,
I checked in one attempt at indexing removable media (CDs, USB keys,
external
hard drives, network mounts or even regular directories which can loaded,
unloaded at runtime etc.).
* Get svn trunk, build, install etc.
* Start beagled (pass "--backend none" to run with only removable indexes)
* Create a static index and pass "--removable" to make it removable
$ beagle-build-index
--removable
<and other usual options>
--target /path/to/index
/path/to/mount/directory
* you can pass "--source <source>" to use an easily recognizable name for
the media, it is set to the directory name of /path/to/index by default
* you can store the index inside the mounted directory or outside, as you
wish
* apart from the source, the Hal volume-label is stored as
beagle:RemovableLabel and can be searched against.
* Ask beagled to mount the removable index at runtime
$ beagle-removable-index
--indexdir /path/to/index
--mount /path/to/mount/directory
* Check beagle-index-info to verify
* Perform queries
* Ask beagled to unmount the removable index, again live
$ beagle-removable-index
--indexdir /path/to/index
--unmount /path/to/mount/directory
There might be some rough patches so I would really appreciate some testing.
And some feedback on the command line options, the beagle-removable-index
tool and any other information to set or store in the removable index.
Thanks,
- dBera
PS: Why use two separate paths for the index directory and the mounted
directory ? Because in the past discussions, we could not decide where to
store the index for removable sources. This way users can decide themselves
what works best for them.
PPS: It is trivial to allow searching unmounted media. In that case, if a
result is found in the unmounted medium, then it will be flagged and the UI
can display a prompt asking the user to insert the specific medium. Sort of
like searching catalogues. Would this be any useful ?
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Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com
beagle / KDE / Mandriva / Inspiron-1100
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