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Originally Posted by itimpi
I have personally been running in this mode for many months and have not encountered any downsides. My suspicion is that for users who do not know much about how their computers run they could get into all sorts of trouble trying to use this facility with their databases and book store getting out of sync. That is probably why there is reluctance to expose the options in the GUI and make it easy for naive users to find them.
I would like to see the full list of environment variables and command line options used by calibre in this area added to the documentation for future reference.
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Desktop databases are fragile by their nature. Many processes happen asynchronously.
Glitch that and things get broken.
Calibre appears to be a hybrid of the O/S file system (author and title folders) and a database to keep track of said contents (along with other stuff). Queuing files to get written to a networked device and having a local (faster), database is asking for one to get updated without the other completing
Suppose the mount point gets confused?
Kovid kept the Metadata DB in the same path as the books for a good reason
They are a mated pair.
It is your foot to shoot off. :/
You can store Gasoline near a water heater, without it ALWAYS catching fire. . . That does not make it a good idea.