[Digikam-devel] [spam detected by bogofilter] problems with digikam3.db into a nefs partition

[Gilles Caulier]

2007/3/6, Achim Bohnet <ach at mpe.mpg.de>:
>
> On Monday, 5. March 2007, Fabien wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please, please, evaluate my proposal :
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107871#c6
> >
> > <<
> > I suggest to add 2 command-line options to start digikam.
> >
> > * -f to to specify the full path to digikam3.db, or relative path from
> > the album directory
> >
> > * directory as argument => this would be the album path digikam use
> >
> > Eg:
> >
> > 1) # digikam
> > would behave like now. The 1st time, it will ask for an album path
> >
> > 2) # digikam -f /path/to/digikam3.db
> > would behave like now except it will use the specific path for the
> > database file
> >
> > 3) # digikam /path/to/my/album
> > digikam will use this directory as the album path, but won't override
> > default album path if there's already one
> >
> > 4) # digikam -f /path/to/digikam3.db /path/to/my/album
> > would combine 2) and 3)
> >  >>
> >
> > This would not only be a workaround for the nfs/samba locking problem,
> > but also a way to extend digiKam's usage :
> > some people complain that they can only use one library which stores all
> > their pictures. They'd like to have a few libraries. There are also some
> >   people who'd like to access pictures on a read-only media (eg DVD).
> > Finally, some people would also like to open a specific directory which
> > contains pictures, like you can do with other tools.
> > All these wishes could be mostly solved by this addon...
>
> I agree with your points 1-4.   Nevertheless from user point of
> view having a warning when pictures are on a remote file system, like:
>
>         Your picture library is on a remote file system.
>         The digikam's database can't be stored there.
>         Please spezify a local folder
>
>                 [Browse ...]    [Quit]
>
> Is much more helpful.
>
> Feel free to cut and paste to your bug report of post the bug# ;)
>
> Achim
>

Yes Achim, something like this must be done on GUI.

Just a notice about SQlite and NFS. On LinuxFR.org forum (in French), an
user have reported than SQLite work fine with NFS version >= 4. NFS 3 do not
work.

Look this link : http://linuxfr.org/2007/03/06/22160.html

If there is somebody witch have an NFS4 server ready to use with digiKam, i
would to have a fresh report about this point... Take a care to test, i
recommend to use a test account with a fresh album library path. Do not try
to use it in production because there is a risk to corrupted the database.

Gilles
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