[Gnumed-devel] client "dependencies" stored on a USB Flash drive

[J Busser]

At 8:07 PM +0100 1/26/05, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  > >possible to have all of the "client" dependencies (application files and
>  > >configurations etc.) stored on a USB Flash drive? You could be at the
>  > >hospital or at a friend's house, you could be on-call or even 
> just remember
> >  >something that you have to check or "do", and you could just pop 
> > in the USB Flash
> >  >drive
> >  That's a very good idea, it's certainly possible for Windows using py2exe.
> >  You don't need a Flash drive, a 50M business-card sized CD would work as
> >  well.
> That would leave you with a non-editable database (if you can
> get it to work at all)

> But you can combine the bootable GnuMed
> client CD with an USB stick storing the database files...

What is the need for storing database files on the USB stick, is this 
for "caching" purposes?

If the connection to the server should be interrupted, is there a 
need to preserve these "cache" files, in order to somehow later 
reconcile them with the server?

Is this why you would need a USB stick in *addition* to a client CD, 
and not just a client CD by itself, because even if you *could* 
configure to write cache files onto the computer whose temporary use 
you were permitted, you would be unable to take the cached files with 
you and/or it would be insecure to leave them on the borrowed 
computer?