[sldev] Reformatting Textures for the cache

Jason Giglio gigstaggart at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 14:00:15 PDT 2007


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? 


Congratulations, you just reinvented the crappy VFS system we are 
working to get rid of.

-Jason


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