[Development] QStorageInfo

[Bo Thorsen]

Den 29-08-2014 05:51, Joseph Crowell skrev:
>
> On 8/29/2014 2:34 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 August 2014 14:18:06 Rutledge Shawn wrote:
>>>> I want an API that makes it clear that detection may fail or be
>>>> ambiguous.
>>>> Call it "storage locality" or "storage remoteness" or, hopefully, some
>>>> better  name.
>>>>
>>>> The more types we start to add, the more difficult it becomes. We can
>>>> provide an  extra attribute for those types that are determined to be
>>>> local to report whether they're fixed, removable, virtual or unknown.
>>> There could be a hybrid (maybe it's even common already… I'm not a user of
>>> commercial cloud storage yet so don't know): cloud storage with a big local
>>> cache, so that many files are available offline, but not everything.  In
>>> the database use case maybe it should be considered local, because
>>> performance will be OK, but it's not strictly true.
>> That's a good point and worth the fourth state.
>>
>> Some applications may accept using it because it's fast. Some others may
>> refuse because huge amounts of data might be uploaded to the cloud. I wouldn't
>> want a constantly-changing database getting sync'ed.
>>
>> That said, I can't fathom a way of detecting this in any current system, with
>> any API.
>>
> Is it possible to know that a folder is a Dropbox Synced folder? I don't
> think it is.

Dropbox is completely local. They have an application that checks for 
local or remote changes and copies to the other side when that happens.

Bo Thorsen,
Director, Viking Software.

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