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GConf storage

GConf storage

Posted Jul 6, 2006 4:59 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159)
Parent article: The 2006 Linux Filesystems Workshop (Part II)

Note that there is a modification of the GConf storage format that stores subtrees of the GConf db as single files. This was written to reduce the number of small files created, due to the disk wastage with common file systems. I'm not sure if it is enabled by default for new users though.


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