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Elektrified X.org releasedElektrified X.org releasedPosted Dec 1, 2004 0:45 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)In reply to: Elektrified X.org released by evgeny Parent article: Elektrified X.org released
remote management etc. is beyond the scope of Elektra. Electra is not aware of the semantics of the configuration. It just provides a simple method of accessing configuration.
Adding remote management, versioning on top of that is proably possible.
The main non-standard feature required for Elektra to work propely is symlinks. And even without it most things will work. Other than that all you need is basic file-system interface.
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Elektrified X.org released Posted Dec 1, 2004 10:47 UTC (Wed) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link] > remote management etc. is beyond the scope of Elektra. [...] It just provides a simple method of accessing configuration.
Exactly. It, essentially, implements the day-before-yesterday functionality (INI configs) yet requires facilities not present in all current filesystems.
> Adding remote management, versioning on top of that is proably possible.
Well, the keywords here are "on top" and "probably". ;-) With the same expected level of success as adding security on top of DOS was. It just strikes me that a project with such an ambitious goal as converting _all_ the Unix configuration mess to a single API didn't bother thinking of even yesterday's requirements to system configuration!
Elektrified X.org released Posted Dec 2, 2004 23:07 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] > Exactly. It, essentially, implements the> day-before-yesterday functionality (INI configs)
No, it is not INI config. With INI config you have only thre-level deep tree of configuration (file, section, key). Electra does not have this silly limitation.
> yet requires facilities not present in all current filesystems.
The *required* facilities are avilable everywhere. On some systems it will be less efficient. But even ext3 now has support for a more scalable directory access . Try tune2fs -O dir_index
> Well, the keywords here are "on top" and
Rebuilding everything from scratch has even less expected chance of adding security.
> It just strikes me that a project with such
Into a system that is easy to use by eveything and can be used anywhere.
Elektrified X.org released Posted Dec 3, 2004 19:49 UTC (Fri) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link] > How can you configure the network using this daemon if the networked daemon needs the network configuration just to get going?
In exactly the same way I can run a LDAP server holding the user DB under a given account. Also, think e.g. of gcc bootstrapping, running of fsck on / before anything is mounted etc. We have a lot of similar chicken-or-egg problems.
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