From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" Subject: Re: Contraversial: A New FRUGAL File System? Linux Registry (again)? Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 22:51:14 -0500 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <003901c39c59$6248dab0$0201a8c0@joe> <20031027071956.98995719C@blood.actrix.co.nz> Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:19886 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263853AbTJ1EBC (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:01:02 -0500 Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEL2T-0006tE-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:01:01 +0100 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org "Charles Manning" 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