Użytkownik "Max Power" <mikehack@washington.edu> napisał w wiadomości
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> Has any form of UNIX (ignoring POSTIX compliant OS's that have an internal
> structure unrelated to Linix / BSD / Mach / ... like OS2 / etc..) ever
> had any kind of registry (for the core OS, not the applications; system
> daemons may be tracked by such a structure -- but not user daemons)?

AIX does have it. It's called ODF.
The common wisdom is it's the less unixy unix product created.

> I am not suggesting any design like anything in the Microsoft mold, just
> something to make storing and recovering (if necessary) core OS states
> more robust.

I'd use some kind of version control system.
Also, look at the OBSD's "mtree".

Cheers