[ros-kernel]Registry status

[Phillip S. <ps...@cf...>]

I've been playing around with the registry lately, and I have a few 
questions.

1) Is write support enabled?  I fixed smss to pass TRUE to 
NtInitializeRegistry() to cause default registry hives to be created, but 
when I modify them, the changes do no seem to be committed to disk.

2) There seems to be a bug when listing what hives are loaded.  Even though 
the various other hives are loaded, a dir in registry explorer in 
KHEY_LOCAL_MACHINE only shows the HARDWARE hive, but you can still cd into 
the software and system keys, and correctly display their contents.  I also 
created and populated a hive in 2k, and reactos can read its 
contents.  Good job!

3) It seems that when a new hive is created because it does not exist, 
CmiPopulateHive() is called to fill out the hive with 50 empty 
pages/blocks, growing the file to 200K.  Is that really necessary?  It 
would be nice to keep the files size down.  When I exported a small hive 
from 2k, it was only 8K.

I'd like to start using the registry now, if that is possible.