I need to store user preferences...

Currently, there are only two user preferences and these are stored as fields in the User table of the database. However, the number of preferences is going to increase. I guess there will be around 20 or so eventually. Experience suggests that most users won't change most of their preferences from the default setting. Therefore, I don't really want to add all the preferences to the User table when nearly all of them will be set to the default values.

I could implement the preferences in the database with an EAV model. But I wondered if Perl's core Storable might be a better solution.

I've not used Storable before so I'd appreciate the monastic wisdom about any issues I might face using Storable generally and it's suitability for this specific application...

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