On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:34:47PM -0300, Avi Alkalay wrote: > > > 3. You might run out of disk space > > 4. You need rollback > > So the app handling the keys must be mature enough to roll it back. In ten lines of shell script. Rollback belongs in the configuration libraries so you can do commit(list of key changes). That handles out of disk for free also. > About storage, 1 file per key or 1 file per folder uses almost the > same amount of disk space. Do a 'du -sk' in gconf storage folders to > see that. In a db4 hash overhead seems to be percentage points. In flat file its about 3.5K per key for single key per file. It is implementation detail compared to the fundamental goal. Overall I'm glad to see this work being done. I'm not convinced the format is right but the essential goals of unifying configuration spaces, improving tools and also just going out and doing it are all good things.
