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

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 02:33, Dick Porter wrote:
> 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?

Yes, except we found a few cases where you'd want to attach larger files
as metadata (for example, an icon), and GConf did not seem appropriate
for storing this sort of data.

-Seth