Re: [GNOME VFS] Re: Daemons [Was: gob inside gnome-vfs ...]

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

Dick Porter <dick ximian com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:56:17PM -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > 
> > I'm curious what you think the big disadvantage of a metadata server
> > is, as compared to the obvious advantages of avoiding loss of user
> > data, providing a shared cache with writeback so the disk is hit less
> > often, providing coherent change notification, etc.
> 
> And doesnt GConf already give you all of those things?  Has anyone thought
> about using that for storing metadata?

I was thinking that too. In fact, to me GConf seems useful for all
kinds of data that needs to be persistent across application
invocation, but which doesn't have to have an associated file name
that the user knows about.