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Nobody in their right mind would put every field into a separate file though. (Yes, I do know about qmail.)
by trasz 4y ago
Nobody in their right mind would put every field into a separate file though. (Yes, I do know about qmail.)
- veltas 4y agoYes but that is the comparison being made, that the registry is like a filesystem and thus should have just been a filesystem. If the suggestion is to put many fields in one file then that's a different suggestion.
- trasz 4y agoThere have been filesystems that don’t use strict block sizes - Reiser4 IIRC. It’s not done often because the savings are tiny and it complicates implementation a lot. A bigger problem I can see is that Unix file system semantics is… hairy; see rename(2) atomicity guarantees for example. So it could make sense to replace it not with a typical filesystem, but something more RESTful.
- veltas 4y agoAgain, the filesystem in context was the Windows filesystem, not a UNIX filesystem or Reiser4.