[jaclaz]

From the "rant" rwmj just posted a link to:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/why-the-windows-regist...

>This misses the point: the Registry is a filesystem. Sure it’s stored in a file, but so is ext3 if you choose to store it in a loopback mount. The Registry binary format has all the aspects of a filesystem: things corresponding to directories, inodes, extended attributes etc.

> The major difference is that this Registry filesystem format is half-arsed. The format is badly constructed, fragile, endian-specific, underspecified and slow.

Anyway, file systems and databases are essentially similar, the point revolves more around the poor implementation of the Registry (whatever it is).

[zamadatix]

I think everyone is in agreement it's bad, as I said:

> Most of the actual technical issues you list have more to do with it being extended for the last 30 years in a backwards compatible way than anything to do with it being a hierarchical db instead of a filesystem.

My first line about it being a database was about point 7 in the same link:

> Back to point 1, the Registry is a half-assed, poor quality implementation of a filesystem. Importantly, it’s not a database. It should be a database!

With "not a database" in bold.