Status of gconf -> dconf

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 22:11 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> Anyway, it was just an idea. I don't expect it to be suitable for
> *every* purpose. It just annoys me that people so readily discount the
> filesystem, only to just re-invent what is essentially a filesystem in
> userspace *anyway*. And re-invent it badly. How many thousands of
> man-years have gone in to researching filesystem design over the past,
> what, 40 years? How many thousands of man years has gone in to
> optimizing the Linux kernel and ext2/3/4 specifically? Do you really
> think you can do better?

Given different constraints and requirements I'd say it is probable.

Simo.

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