Il giorno domenica 7 maggio 2017 03:45:30 UTC+10, mpl ha scritto: > > On 6 May 2017 at 03:12, Rhythmic Fistman <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > Il giorno venerdì 5 maggio 2017 23:34:11 UTC+10, mpl ha scritto: > >> > >> Are you asking if it's normal that you only see permanodes in the web > >> UI? if yes, then yes it is normal, that's how the Camlistore model > >> works. Objects are represented with permanodes. If some data is not > >> anchored by a permanode, it's not a visible object. > > > > > > My web ui shows 1 jpeg and 4 directories full of jpegs. > > The directories were add like so: > > > > camput --verbose file --permanode --title "directory name" --tag=photos > > ~/backups/photos/ > > > > > > So does that mean the contents of the directories are anchored or not? > > They are indirectly anchored in the sense that they area reachable > through the permanode for the top directory. So if we had a garbage > collector, they wouldn't be wiped since they are not orphaned pieces > of data. > > > If not, how should I camput directories? Would the fuse fs have the > right > > semantics? > > if you want to create a permanode for each of the files, use > -filenodes instead of -permanode. But it depends on what you want to > achieve really. If all you want is to archive your data, so you can > get it all as a bulk at any time later, then -permanode is fine. If > you want to access each file individually through the web UI, or model > mutations to these files, then -filenodes might be better. >
Thanks, -filenodes works really well for photographs, which you can then search for by date, location, etc. I guess -permanode is more appropriate for backing up your home directory... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Camlistore" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
