-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03.08.2014 18:49, Jos Poortvliet wrote: >>> On Linux extended attributes are usually enabled by default >>>>> (user_xattr) on home mounts. On Mac I think I heard about >>>>> such attributes existing as well and are possibly even used >>>>> by the Mac Office suite (notes, etc). On Windows, I'm not >>>>> sure whether NTFS supports it. Also some people might still >>>>> store their files on FAT partitions... >>> >>> Yes, but FAT not a good choice for synced data anyway and NTFS >>> is default since Win XP. >>> >>>>> So yeah, probably not a good idea :-D >>> >>> I disagree. We probably want to investigate more, but I think >>> it is a promising idea: We store the fileid as extended >>> attribute. And if the sync algorithm detects that a file is not >>> longer there, it will check all new files if they have the >>> missed fileid (which we know from the local sync journal db) in >>> their extended file attribute. If yes, the file was moved. > Note that desktop indexers like Baloo and applications like Amarok > also track files around - might be worth seeing what they use for > that...
Baloo utilizes extended attributes for tagging files. On file systems that do not support them, they fall back to an sqlite DB. http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/07/tagging-your-files/ Cheers Arthur - -- XMPP: [email protected] www.owncloud.com - Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Way! ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff, Frank Karlitschek Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT31xqAAoJEHQk8YdIVN8jBioQAJpqopLvIhWD9+r+YpWkBc6v v1QTT17f2V+Gryu1fVmVSfSB9ZlhJPiqQNmuH1YtEdgwfhqRIz7cpuxaEPe8/6Dz 07FO2iSScPxhONVIfIKvfQXaXmsf3npYqgBO898MnvulRCNx0t9UDSeA4CBIPkDa N2/VQtk6Va/JzSPHiQdnP4CSjW4GZ4hIj10iBNT0rxqgaDPp1H398IiotDiqiGG8 t5l8gt5q4bKZZ4iJc7ES1rnSZTPPSH6GVNVDtLFGgZXUlqnwU9QFhki5Xkwfs4HC 7fDqCWpZ9NS25q7C4aa7v2pScvSqjZBThXXX8Lp2yXh0HZgT5Wxu6lEFtNwnsKTM gKeIE+vEQrSuL2XRZXC8vhJ1KxwnRJFcK0I8STusiVltVFl6s6bAzni4UV60NGRC wwM+q62DIluRq2TXJdWziR4+zxsFcRPEUk4vxBi0DT+wE8grqg2y4/bkCGLxeSgy ScO2dd1iqHdlZyaWXfRzASCfb+FbS1mN3zqe8+9hG8MZ55p24kXKCysJXOePCdgP RVTM5YPkET9W77hQo5l6lNVTnPCjT5dyD1qCC003ZWy7eRfd+6zKYUe0V/ut2lS/ h26y5g7Hlfe8nMTmqR7q05/6RCIU8ALFHBEWDNdudgtqLPNZQ+wwcHXaUANP3tKO aVLqGMK6/9tST3UGjBy8 =5vGK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
