On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:23 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Philip Van Hoof <spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org> writes: > > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I want to store lots of (valuable) additional metadata about my files in > >> the tracker database. > >> > >> However, I am a little bit concerned about the safety of this > >> information. Apparently, tracker deletes everything that is associated > >> with a given file if it can't find the file itself. > > > >> Is there a way to make tracker keep all the information in the database, > >> even if the file temporarily disappears? > > > > This is not possible, for file (system) resources > > > >> I'm worried about network failures, disconnected external drives, > >> accidental renames of the directory etc. > > > > Disconnected external drives are handled, > > How can Tracker (reliably) detect if a resource is on an external drive? > I can't believe that this works for anything but the trivial case where > /dev/sdX is directly mounted. But if the disk is e.g. LUKS encrypted, > then there's already a device mapper in between. It get's even worse > with all the possibilities that FUSE and bind mounts offer.
HAL (or devicekit) has a unique ID for each removable device. We detect and use this unique ID for this purpose. If you can't believe this, why don't you try it? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Van Hoof freelance software developer Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
