On 11/01/2008, Joe Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Jan 11, 2008 8:16 AM, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why do you need the timestamping? Is that just for beagle to query whats > > changed? (beagle should really use notifications from the daemon for it > > although if its not running it might miss them so I assume timestamping > > is there for backup?) > > The most common case would be to listen to notifications. However, I > think it's a mistake to assume that both systems will be running at > any given point in time such that it's not a lossy channel. The > ability for Beagle to ask "what's changed since I last shut down?" > helps prevent this, and means that distributions and users don't have > to worry about sequencing the startup of the daemons.
I second that we should not depend on both storage+indexer running at all times. However I don't see how timestamps allow us detect deleted items. Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
