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
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 ass
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Hello,
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
Philip Van Hoof 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, trac
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:23 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Philip Van Hoof 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
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 19:42 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:23 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > Philip Van Hoof 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
Philip Van Hoof writes:
>> 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
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:12 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Philip Van Hoof writes:
> >> 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. LU
Philip Van Hoof writes:
> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:12 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Philip Van Hoof
>> writes:
>> >> 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
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:41 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > I already explained what we consider to be a removable device. Martyn
> > also replied to you that info.
>
> I really don't mean to offend you, but it seems that I missed or
> misunderstood that information. I gather that you use GIO and
Martyn Russell writes:
>> I really don't mean to offend you, but it seems that I missed or
>> misunderstood that information. I gather that you use GIO and fall back
>> on HAL/devicekit, but I'm still not sure what devices will qualify as
>> removable.
>
> To see how this is implemented see:
>
> h
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 22:23 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> It seems to me though that this code is only used when tracker is
> explicitly indexing a removable volume, but not if it encounters a mount
> point inside one of the configured index paths. The traverse functions
> don't seem to check if th
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