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Elektrified X.org releasedElektrified X.org releasedPosted Nov 30, 2004 22:45 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Elektrified X.org released by evgeny Parent article: Elektrified X.org released
But more importantly, a dumb fs-based config is just that: a dumb one. Whereas a decent configuration system should provide for logical expressions, remote management, replication, versioning, transactions/rollbacks etc. All this is practically impossible with a filesystem-based config tree; and all this is posssible with RDBMS. If your filesystem is dumb - it's not possible. If your filesystem is smart - it can be done. True - it should be supplied as addon over simple system but all-in-one solutions are never good.
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Elektrified X.org released Posted Dec 1, 2004 10:31 UTC (Wed) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link] > If your filesystem is dumb - it's not possible. If your filesystem is smart - it can be done.
So we can return to this discussion when every man and his dog have such smart filesystems - including embeded devices etc.
Elektrified X.org released Posted Dec 2, 2004 10:08 UTC (Thu) by szh (guest, #23558) [Link] Don't forget to also return to the fact, that not every man and his dogwant replication, versioning, transactions/rollbacks etc. And many of those who need, can do this with filesystems + there own scripts. Just regular cron /etc [or parts of /etc] [incremental] backups satisfy many men and dogs. So the new system will give drawbacks only for those men and dogs.
Elektrified X.org released Posted Dec 2, 2004 10:28 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link] > Don't forget to also return to the fact, that not every man and his dog> want replication, versioning, transactions/rollbacks etc. > And many of those who need, can do this with filesystems + there own > scripts.
Continuing this nice logics, there is no need for a unified configuration system altogether - just as everyone has been adjusting dozens of different configs during the last twenty years of mainstream Unix usage, so we can do it further on. Right?
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