Status of gconf -> dconf

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Feb 24 15:44:29 UTC 2009


Simo Sorce wrote:
> ext4 and btrfs are just more efficient filesystems, but the minimum
> block is still 4KiB (for now) and may even grow, maybe it could shrink
> down to 512B, but there are reasons (from FS structures to hw) why there
> are lower limits like this, trying to "fix" this limit for a few config
> files to (possibly) detriment of all other uses seem not a good idea
> (and yet inode size is just one of the issues of using hundreds of small
> files for a single application).

Well, the problem there is that these file systems still do not support tail
packing. :-( There was a patch for ext2 which implemented it, but it never
got merged. :-(

        Kevin Kofler




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