[mbackup-devel] indexing brainstorm and sqlite

[James O'K. <jo...@mi...>]

I need help brainstorming the various ways that one might want to ask for 
information from the index. The goal is to keep all index  implimentation 
details inside of that module. So no sql queries.

Some that I can think of:
* All files from a certain host. Sometimes with qualifiers such as before 
a certain date.
* All files that are below a certain directory. eg /etc and subfiles and 
directories
* All files on a certain tape.
* All tapes that contain a group of files.

Someone pointed me to sqlite which is a very slimmed down sql database. It 
works well for embedded apps because it doesnt' have client/server stuff. 
It saves everything to a file. http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/

I'm going to use this instead of db3 because it is much easier to work 
with, is smaller, and the sql schema and queries should work with other 
dbs is someone wanted to write a module.
The db3 module that I wrote is still there, but it is out of date.

-james