linux registry (no, not that again!)

Stan Bubrouski stan at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Jul 28 15:15:55 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:15 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Harry Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > This is truly a horrible idea!!! Think about "how well" it works in 
> > windows. Or think AIX.
> 
> I absolutely agree!  Having anything like the Windows Registry for Linux 
> is a wretched, wretched idea...
> 

Yeah why do people want to move to a single config database anyways?  So
you can have a single point of failure for an entire server and all
services?  Or so one poorly written app can corrupt it all?  Ya know I
agree with you guys here.

-sb

> John
> 
> -- 
> John W. Linville
> linville at redhat.com
> 
> 
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Stan Bubrouski <stan at ccs.neu.edu>





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