[sldev] Reformatting Textures for the cache

[Morse Dillon]

Boroondas Gupte wrote:
> 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)
>
I think you're attaching a little too much weight to my ReiserFS 
comment...  Also, the sort of hoops you're describing would be a step 
backwards if you think about it.

Someone made a comment earlier that perhaps NTFS handles piles of small 
files well, in which case the many-files cache would still perform 
acceptably.

-M