Re: [Evolution] Moving Data from 2.0.4 to 2.2.2

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

don't ask me, ask the gconf guys. we didn't write it, we only use it
because we didn't want to have to maintain our own config db library
too.

Jeff

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 14:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 10:07 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 1. the reason you need to shut it down is because gconfd stores the
> > settings in memory and it is impossible to make sure that all settings
> > have been synced to disk without shutting it down first.
> >
> > As far as the destination machine goes, it needs to have gconfd shut
> > down because it will have any settings it knows about in memory and if
> > you replace the settings files while it is running, it won't recognise
> > that they have changed underneath it which may cause you much grief.
>
> That's terrible.  So if my system crashes and burns, any gconf changes
> are lost?
>
> Any reason it can't sync to disk once in a while?
>
> Lee