Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 01:01, Alan Cox wrote:

> 
> > The best solution to that is to use some ultra fast database to store
> > all the settings and gconf data that currently reside in loads of small
> > xml files. (xml is also painfully slow to parse and search which
> 
> Definitely. I'd like to stress the stuff I've done isn't going to help
> gconf just icons/themes however. The database problem with dynamic
> fast updates is a *much* harder problem - paradoxically it might 
> actually be quicker to dump the entire gconf db into a file each 
> changeset than to write a set of changed nodes.


Most modern DB's cache updates/writes rather than writing to the
filesystem directly so i'm not sure if that's a problem.

jamie.