Re: [Bluez-devel] Using ASCII based files for link key storage

[Fred Schaettgen <bluez-devel@schaettgen.de>]

On Saturday, 16. April 2005 19:32, you wrote:
> On Saturday, 16. April 2005 18:23, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
...
> > So first the new place for runtime things like link keys, names etc. I
> > decided to use "/var/cache/bluetooth/<bdaddr>/" as the base directory
> > and then use the file "linkkeys" for the actual link keys. And we will
> > use "names" for the device name cache. The "bdaddr" is the address of
> > the local adapter.
>
> According to the file hierarchy standard, /var/cache is for files which
> "can be deleted without data loss". For cached device names it's probably
> fine. They can't be recomputed if a device isn't in reach, but if it is,
> the device name can be fetched again automatically. But I'm not if this
> should include link keys. They can't be regenerated automatically without
> bothering the user. Deleting them might even break at setup, where the peer
> device isn't reachable easiliy after initial setup. Maybe /var/lib..? I'm
> not really an expert in this area.

After thinking about it a little longer, I would even put the device name 
cache under /var/lib/bluetooth. /var/cache is intended for files with the 
purpose to reduce the load on any kind of resource, be it cpu, memory or 
network. But that's not why bluez is caching device names. It's because we 
want a reliable offline lookup capability. Caches should be completely 
transparent, but this wouldn't be the case here. If the cache is gone, then 
applications could not display a user friendly name, no matter how hard they 
try. It's the same difference as the difference between a browser cache and a 
proxy for offline browsing.

Fred

-- 
Fred Schaettgen
bluez-devel@schaettgen.de


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