Am Samstag, den 20.01.2007, 16:37 +0000 schrieb Jamie McCracken: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if there are any provisions in Tracker to support > > alternate volumes. Right now the user's home directory is indexed > > by default, and it is possible to add more directories. > > > > However, in the case of a tree that resides on an encrypted volume, > > it should be possible to put the index in the root of that tree, > > because you don't want an attacker to get data about what is in that > > volume. > > you can encrypt the $Home/.Tracker using FUSE encfs to avoid that > > > > Similarly, when indexing removable media, users may want the index > > o travel with the media, to be readily available anywhere. > > > > that is much harder for us to do and not all media will be writable. In > fact the lack of space on most of them will rule it out. We do want to > support network searches so maybe something can be done... > > > > In the case of removable media also, the index could be kept in the > > main database to enable searching files on offline volumes (this would > > be particularly cool for backup archives). However, simple paths shouldn't > > be used to locate these files because mount locations are not fixed. > > we will use HAL and the unique ID of the volume to update trackers > database with the corrected uri's automatically > > > > > In conclusion, it should also be possible to have multiple databases in > > various locations, some of them may be made available/unavailable at any > > time. It would also be cool if it was possible to index files in offline > > media like cdroms and external drives. > > this bit is planned with HAL support but with one central database in > $Home - we will deactivate search results from it when volume with > registered id is not mounted
Is it possible that tracker can search for "offline-files" but the tracker-gui indicates that the file is currently not available, or better tracker points to the media (e.g. Samsung HDD 80GB) where to find the file. > we already store a volume ID for all files so this is easy to do for us > -- =========================================== Björn Grüning D-14612 Falkensee, Germany Tel. +49-3322-212968, Fax +49-3322-4287528 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
