2006-07-28: Keith Bennett dixit: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006, EV wrote: > > I was one of the advocates of the fdb idea. [...] > > Okay. Now that I understand the purpose a little better I can > think of a few uses for it. I often want to restore my karma to > a previous state (especially during development as I often have > to wipe the device completely). This would be fairly trivial to > do if all the filenames are stored in a database. I may well > re-instate this feature sometime soon.
O.K. we can open some discussion then. > > However, I do agree that this should be finished, tested and > > debugged... Also I think it should be kind of optional. > > So what was missing/buggy with the implementation before it was > removed? As far as I remember, the fdb cache was not maintained in the RK; only in ~/.openrio/*/libkarma_fdb.gz. There were some minor bugs related with the management/compression of this file, but I think they were already fixed (but not very well tested). On the other hand, there was older code which used fidNamesFile rather than libkarma_fdb. Also, riocp did not provide good support for using the fdb feature (in fact I think it assumed older fidNamesFile code and so it was pretty useless). In any case, I guess Franky can provide better info... At one time, I thought about using the fdb feature to support arbritary directory structures and file names in lkarmafs. This may desserve further thought... > On an unrelated note, I have now come to the end of my personal > "TODO" list so I plan to tackle the data-structure changes > which I talked about a while back. If anyone can think of any > more pressing issues which should be addressed first, please > let me know. I'll reply to this in another message, so as to open a new thread. Best, EV. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-karma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-karma-devel
