Moving Baloo forward

[Francesco R.]

Il 21/01/2014 02:10, Vishesh Handa ha scritto:
> On Saturday 18 January 2014 12:53:38 Jonathan Marten wrote:
>> Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in> writes:
>>> http://community.kde.org/Baloo
>> Thanks for producing that useful page, and of course for all your past
>> and current work on Nepomuk and Baloo.  There is one statement there
>> that makes me a little concerned:
>>
>> "This metadata is now stored with the extended attributes of the file
>> instead of storing it in a separate database."
>>
>> Am I right in assuming that this means xattr?  If so, would there be
>> implications for cases where those extended attributes may not get
>> preserved or are not supported:
>>
>> - simple copy/move of a file using cp/mv (with the default options)
>> - copy/move of a file using KIO
>> - network file systems (NFS or SMB)
>> - backup/restore
>> - FAT filesystems
>> - platforms other then Linux
>>
>> Hoping that none of those will make normal use impossible, but if
>> there would be problems or workarounds needed with any of these then
>> they ought to be addressed early.
>>
> Hey
>
> The idea is that in systems which do not support xattr a secondary database 
> will be used to store the information. So, it will be very similar to the 
> situation we had with Nepomuk.
just always use an additional database, xattrs are not the way to go.
Managing xattrs require a conscious user, many programs by default don't
even copy xattrs.

>
> I still have to implement this.
maybe start without additional metadata, but xattrs must not reach user
systems

>
>> Regards, Jonathan
Regards,
Francesco Riosa