Status of gconf -> dconf

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:37 +0100, Pierre-Yves wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 16:28 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > > I thik the suggestion was to split config files in multiple small
> > > files and use ACLs to control access to them.
> > 
> > IIRC Ted T'so explicitely said in its ext4 FOSDEM presentation this
> > kind of usage pattern was insanity and ext4 would not really support
> > it.
> 
> I remember the same, the issue was that ext4 will not write the file to
> the disc as often as the ext3 format used to be. It therefore increase
> the risc of lose of data between the action of the user/apps and the
> actual data being written to the disc (that's if I understood it
> correctly).

That's only a secondary problem, but one of them yes.

Simo.

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