From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Contraversial: A New FRUGAL File System? Linux Registry (again)?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:51:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bnkp2l$r1h$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031027071956.98995719C@blood.actrix.co.nz
"Charles Manning" <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
news:20031027071956.98995719C@blood.actrix.co.nz...
> On Monday 27 October 2003 20:10, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> > I concur with Charles Manning [manningc2@actrix.gen.nz] that the registry
> > is a good idea and would be valuable to Linux, and I unfortunately agree
> > that the registry is too often abused.
>
> Hang on Joseph! I said I thought that the idea had merit **in theory**. In
> practice I'm not sure that the registry is such a fantastic idea.
>
> I think though that a frugal file system could have some uses independent of
> the registry concept.
Think Reiserfs. I think that might be the ticket.
But if you think the *theory* of a registry is OK, then let's work on that. How
do we go from theory to practice in an acceptable way?
--
Warren W. Gay
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-28 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-27 0:14 Contraversial: A New FRUGAL File System? Linux Registry (again)? Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-10-27 6:36 ` Charles Manning
2003-10-27 7:10 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2003-10-27 7:26 ` Charles Manning
2003-10-27 7:44 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2003-10-28 3:51 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2003-10-28 3:49 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-10-28 3:05 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-10-27 17:41 ` Controversial: " Bryan Henderson
2003-10-28 3:31 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-10-28 13:08 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-28 13:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-28 16:06 ` Ian Kent
2003-10-28 19:18 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-10-29 19:10 ` Brian Beattie
[not found] <200310271438.19111.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
2003-10-27 17:43 ` Contraversial: " Joseph D. Wagner
2003-10-27 23:01 ` David Woodhouse
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