What are the main reasons against the Windows Registry?

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Published on 2010-04-08T14:12:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 14:23 UTC
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If i want to develop a registry-like System for Linux, which Windows Registry design failures should i avoid?
Which features would be absolutely necessary?
What are the main concerns (security, ease-of-configuration, ...)?

I think the Windows Registry was not a bad idea, just the implementation didn't fullfill the promises. A common place for configurations including for example apache config, database config or mail server config wouldn't be a bad idea and might improve maintainability, especially if it has options for (protected) remote access.

I once worked on a kernel based solution but stopped because others said that registries are useless (because the windows registry is)... what do you think?

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