From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 20 12:15:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B6737B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:15:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA77474; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200102202015.MAA77474@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: DJBDNS vs. BIND In-Reply-To: <3A92129E.7CD722F4@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Feb 19, 2001 11:45:50 pm" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:15:24 -0800 (PST) Cc: cedric@wireless-networks.com (Cedric Berger), arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Cedric Berger wrote: > > > > > Configuration data > > > on VMS was mostly stored in the form of "logical names", which are sort > > > of like persistent environment variables with different namespaces (per > > > system, per group, and per user). > > > > Well, the windows registry also provide such kind of centralized, > > persistent environment variables, with different namespaces > > (per system, per user)? > > > > At least, let's say that Windows way of storing configuration looks > > closer then VMS than UNIX. > > OK, except VMS didn't store them in some half-baked database file, and > didn't regularly scramble all of it. ;^) You never had to deal with a scrambled sysuaf.dat, rightlist.dat, netproxy.dat or a million other ``registry like'' .dat files on VMS? Your fortunate! (Yea, VMS was 10^6 times better about not doing this, but it still did it, and one could usually easily recover by deleting the highest version of the file (thank god for versions).) > The logicals on VMS were stored only in memory, and were created during > or after system boot by DSL procedures, the equivalent of shell scripts. ^^^ DCL > This is actually much more like UNIX than the Windows Registry. Take a look at ``DIR sys$system:*.dat'' some time and tell me that again... LNM is only one part of the picture... -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message