Use one database per partition
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Citing Stefan Brüns post on kde-devel ML:

How about using one db per partition? This has several benefits:

  • you free up space for 64 bit inodes (currently 32bit inode || 32 bit device)
  • UUIDs are large in general (128 bit), adding this to the document id means

considerably larger keys to compare.

  • the db becomes movable, i.e. saved on external drives
  • as a consequence, the db can also be saved inside a vault

That would eliminate a major flaw: Baloo cannot uniquely identify removable drives and network shares.

The longer I think about it, the more appealing this approach becomes. It' a huge task though...

michaelh created this task.Mar 14 2018, 5:21 PM
bruns added a subscriber: bruns.Mar 31 2018, 12:50 AM
michaelh closed this task as Wontfix.Mar 31 2018, 3:05 PM
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Stefan mentioned this in T7860. That is reminder enough.