On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:11 +0200, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote: > > > I will think about supporting multiple indexes in different > places - it > can affect performance though so need to be careful > > currently only one index in home is supported > > I've been very interested in having this functionality as well, but > not so much in order to save space as for the mere fact of being able > to plug in a USB stick or external hard drive and receive search > results through tracker. > I imagine it would be easier to go about like this: > > 1) USB device is attached > 2) Tracker retrieves the disk's UUID and starts indexing the content > 3) When the disk is detached, the data is not erased from the > database. Rather tracker-search does not return results from the > mounted path if a disk with the corresponding UUID is not attached > (this information, I presume, can be retrieved from hal). > 4) next time the disk is attached tracker crawls it's filesystem. > > The database can be kept in $HOME. > > Even this approach (as opposed to the original suggestion) would > result in a fantastic feature. However, I'm no programmer and there > might very well be technical problems with this approach that makes it > unviable. >
we already have support for enabling/disabling files based on HAL UDI volumes for this only thing needed is 2 and 4 jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
