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The Registry is a pseudo file system inside the file system. It is one of the reasons that Windows is so much harder to backup and restore than Unix is, because
by agazso 16y ago
The Registry is a pseudo file system inside the file system. It is one of the reasons that Windows is so much harder to backup and restore than Unix is, because parts of it contain system state and other parts contain configuration and the whole is mixed into one big mess.
On the other hand, text files are universal.
- gaius 16y agoOK, but it's not as simple as that. Man fstab-sync, for example, and you'll see that your config files can be mysteriously rewritten. Or resolv.conf being dynamically modified by DHCP. /etc is more complicated than just a directory full of text files.