Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout redefines /etc/fstab]

[John Nilsson]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 00:22, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:41:04PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 03:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:04:25PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> > > > If you settle for reiser4 or such fs one could store all settings as
> > > > single files in a tree much like /proc/sys this tree could then be
> > > > exposed as an xml or other format for backward compatibility through
> > > > filsystem plugins...
> > >
> > > And you want to reinvent gconf for what reason?  :)
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~mine0057/fs.pdf
>
> Heh, my main point is that reiser4 is not here today, will not be here
> tomorrow, and will not be in wide use next month.  Next year it will
> only have a very small installed base, if any.
>
If you liked that one you might likte to read this too:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/9/172159/7912

or

http://www.xs4all.nl/~evbergen/configuration-data.html

> You need to do something fs independant, much like gconf does :)

Depending on how you define fs, gconf is not fs independent, gconf is a
fs. I agree though that you should not have to depend on reiser4 to
configure the system, mabey the needed functionality could be "emulated"
in (or above) the VFS layer for other filesystems...

I realize that this dicussion is merly academic at this point and if
people think this is OT please say so, and I will stop polluting the
list.
Never the less I still belive that the Gentoo project should not be
limited because of the "meta distribution" lable. Portage is the meta
distribution, Gentoo very much is a distribution.

... Mabey what I'm trying to do is more fit for a seperate project from
Gentoo.

Does anyone know of a project trying to create an Operating System with
the help of OSS? By that I mean not a distribution of OSS, rather a
coherent collection of computer servieces implemented with the help of
OSS.

GNU?

-John