[sldev] Re: Reformatting Textures for the cache

[Argent Stonecutter]

> The reason to use SQL (or whatever) database over a direct access  
> to the
> filesystem is the eliminate the overhead of the filesystem and disk
> fragmentation.

The overhead of a relational database is much much higher than the  
overhead of plain disk files for bulk data like images, and internal  
fragmentation is a much bigger problem than disk fragmentation. In  
fact disk fragmentation has not been a significant problem on most  
operating systems introduced in the last 20 years. Windows, of  
course, is the big exception to that rule. :p