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diff --git a/README.reload b/README.reload
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--- a/README.reload
+++ b/README.reload
@@ -18,19 +18,28 @@ bug!
 This defines how aliases are inserted into the track database.  Need
 to think about how changing it will affect things.
 
-** namepart
+** namepart (enforced at reload only)
 
 Probably affects alias construction.
 
-** stopword
+** stopword (enforced at reload only)
 
-The search database will have to be rebuilt from scratch.  This is
-do-able but AFAIK we don't detect it.
+The search database will have to be rebuilt from scratch.
 
 ** user (enforced at reload only)
 
 All the files will be owned by the wrong user!
 
+** Alias, search database, etc
+
+Rescan can regenerate aliases and the search and tag databases but we
+rather assume that they are either empty or good.  Therefore we need
+to store anything that can affect these values and erase them if they
+change.
+
+The solution is a global pref _dbparams which contains the hash of the
+alias, stopword and namepart data.
+
 * Options that must remain the same across reload
 
 Some things will just require a restart.  We should either enforce