Re: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumation (uSDE)

[Daniel Stekloff]

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 06:30 am, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:52:33 +0000, Greg KH wrote:
[snip]
> > that udev is suffering from "lack of maintainability and bloat" if you
> > really want :)
>
> bloat. lots of bloat. what is that tdb database for?
> filesystems are persistent. if you want to save space,
> create a tar file :-)

[snip]


The tdb database is for storing current device information, udev needs to 
reference names to devices. The database also enables an api for applications 
to query what devices are on the system, their names, and their nodes. 

Using tdb has its advantages too; it's small, it's flexible, it's fast, it can 
be in memory or on disk, and it has locking for multiple accesses.

IMVHO - tdb isn't bloat.

Thanks,

Dan
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