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From: Greg KH <greg@×××××.com>
To: John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout redefines /etc/fstab]
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:43:09
Message-Id: 20040223232231.GA23722@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout redefines /etc/fstab] by John Nilsson
1 On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:41:04PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 03:12, Greg KH wrote:
3 > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:04:25PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
4 > > > If you settle for reiser4 or such fs one could store all settings as
5 > > > single files in a tree much like /proc/sys this tree could then be
6 > > > exposed as an xml or other format for backward compatibility through
7 > > > filsystem plugins...
8 > >
9 > > And you want to reinvent gconf for what reason? :)
10 > > greg k-h
11 >
12 > http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~mine0057/fs.pdf
13
14 Heh, my main point is that reiser4 is not here today, will not be here
15 tomorrow, and will not be in wide use next month. Next year it will
16 only have a very small installed base, if any.
17
18 You need to do something fs independant, much like gconf does :)
19
20 I sure don't understand why sysfs was mentioned in that paper, but it is
21 cool to see it get popular...
22
23 thanks,
24
25 greg k-h
26
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Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout redefines /etc/fstab] John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>