[sldev] Reformatting Textures for the cache

[Boroondas Gupte]

Morse Dillon wrote:
> For the naysayers, this is how production e-mail servers like Postfix 
> handle their data.  If one thinks about it, a filesystem is 
> practically the very definition of the kind of lookup db needed for 
> this cache system.  It would be even better if we had access to a 
> filesystem like ReiserFS on Windows and OS X that excels in handling 
> piles of small files. 
We can't ask Windows users to provide a ReiserFS disk or partition or 
alike. So what about a file-system-in-a-file? (like those ISO-FS CD 
images) I don't know if that would destroy performance again.

If not, we'd need drivers and some way to mount files as drives. For 
Linux (and I guess, for Mac also), that's already available. Windows 
might pose problems, though. (A quick search tells, drivers are 
available, but I don't know how reliable they are nor if it would be 
possible to somehow include them into SL)

Boroondas