Elektrified X.org released

Elektrified X.org released

Posted Dec 1, 2004 11:18 UTC (Wed) by evgeny (guest, #774)
In reply to: Elektrified X.org released by khim
Parent article: Elektrified X.org released

> Tree-like information should live in tree and we already have one - filesystem tree.

Configurations are NOT trees. They're graphs (the symlinks used by Electra is a poor-man solution to this). Plus, they're _dynamic_ ones.

> Can I use vi over ssh to edit my config then ? No ? Then it's not contender.

Gosh. Why not `ed' then? There is a userfs plugin that allows to navigate/edit a postgres DB like a directory, if you insist on that. I also assume that you code exclusively in assembler and use `telnet 80 lwn.net' to read my reply.

> And even if there is you are still with the same problem: you do not have access control.

RDBMS have no access control?!

> You can add remote management, replication, versioning, transactions/rollbacks if you wish - you only need good enough filesystem.

U-hu. Just a tiny obstacle.

> Why not fix filesystems instead ?

Well, go fix them. IMHO, filesystem developers have more urgent tasks than tailoring their filesystems to an ambitios configuration project. So we can wait years and years - and still have a dumb (no logical expressions etc) configuration mechanism.

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