[virt-tools-list] [libosinfo] Detection tool should set env for media ID

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 04:10:44PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Christophe Fergeau
> >> > Hmm this also means the OSINFO_LIVE/OSINFO_INSTALLER properties are no
> >> > longer that useful, we can go from ID to database entry and get these
> >> > properties from there. I'm pointing this out since iirc the less things we
> >> > stick in udev, the better.
> >>
> >>   Perhaps but then we'll need to waste some time in re-searching for
> >> media/os that has already been searched for by another entitiy.
> >
> > I don't think this search will be done so often that the extra search
> > matters
> 
>   Its also about the amount of time/resources it'll take to do search.
> I imagine that at some point our database will become quite big enough
> to care about this performance penalty.

Or some of the database might not be local - we could be looking up
against database files over HTTP.


Daniel
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