[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Wed Jan 28 05:31:39 EST 2009


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:28, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> You got distracted with shiny stuff!
>
> Rickrolled indeed :-)
>
>>> Is it possible for you to add a single file that says the "journal
>>> storage" version at the root of it? Something like
>>>
>>>   $ cat .sugar/default/datastore/store/format
>>>   2
>>
>> We actually had it already, have updated the wiki page with info about it.
>>
>> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite
>
> Excellent news. Looks good (as described in the wikipage), so the
> older datastores, having no 'version' file, are a nominal '0'.

Yup.

>> Sounds good, I guess you can do the reorg with hard links in the same
>> script where we had the metadata exported to json.
>
> Exactly - guess what the client would have done, build an appropriate
> hardlink tree, and then let rsync add/remove as appropriate. Avoids
> transferring the actual data files which may be large.

Sounds good.

Regards,

Tomeu


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