• plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I wait for the day that systemd unifies all /etc config file and the .* config files into one easy to use service that stores the configurations in one efficient central binary file and thus maintains consistency over all applications, is easy to backup and overall makes life much better for developers and users alike.

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      For desktop/app level stuff this is already the case with DConf, so I guess the challenge would just be to extend this into the kernel/services how

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Avoiding round trips and context switches is desirable in itself, but the real advantage[citation needed] comes from allowing the I/O scheduler in the kernel to do a better job by saturating it with requests coming from all of the applications trying to read their keys (as opposed to a common configuration server serially requesting a single key at a time).

        Having all of the keys in a single compact binary format also avoids the intense fragmentation problems currently experienced by the tree-of-directories-of-xml-files approach

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dconf

        I didn’t know.