On Thursday, September 5, 2013 3:33:54 PM UTC+3, Honza Bambas wrote:
> Should b2g have a global cache directory?  Android has a folder whom 
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> path is gived to an app via its Context (or what is the name of the 
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> interface).  This folder content or individual files can be in any time 
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> deleted by the OS (android) when low on disk space.  The data in it are 
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> considered volatile, so only used for caching.
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> Should we have some kind of this functionality too?
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> E.g. for the new http cache backend we use andoid's cache dir and thus 
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> we don't need any sophisticated eviction algorithm.  It can make the 
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> code less complex and takes some of the resposibility off an app coder.
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> And in relation to "Low device storage (notifying the user)" thread - is 
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> there a way an app can say its data is critical (e.g. sms, email when 
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> removing mails from the server, contacts)?  We could just delete the 
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> non-critical apps data when needed.
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> -hb-

Whatever the situation would be, B2G right now doesn't have any means for 
creating some free space, I think this whole issue should be dealt with in 
parallel with creating a file manager for that purpose.
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