Status of gconf -> dconf

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:23 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:47 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > As has been pointed out a couple of times, it's *not* always efficient
> > to use the filesystem, because the filesystem usually relies on block
> > sizes.  Thus you waste lots of space if your file is < 4k.
> 
> Has anyone quantified this at any point?
> 
> If 'lots of space' turns out to be 150MB, who the frick cares? I bought
> a 500GB hard disk for $60. It was the smallest one they sell any more. I
> bought an 8GB micro SD card - the size of a fricking fingernail - for
> $50 a couple of months back. Where are we actually dealing with space
> limitations any more? Not saying that there isn't somewhere, just that
> we need to quantify if block sizes are actually a practical problem for
> the use cases we're considering or not.

+1

-sv