[sldev] Re: Reformatting Textures for the cache

[Dale Glass]

В сообщении от 26 марта 2007 11:36 Callum Lerwick написал(a):
> Is it still not clear that reinventing the wheel here is not a
> productive idea? Because that's what you're doing. You're
> reinventing a filesystem on top of a filesystem. Hundreds of
> thousands of man hours have gone into refining and optimizing
> filesystem efficiency in Linux and BSD and *cough* other operating
> systems, based upon decades of accumulated research and experience
> in the field of computer science.
I've got to agree here. Writing a good filesystem is a very complex 
task in itself. We're definitely not going to come up with something 
of the quality of say, ReiserFS or NTFS here. Rather it'll be more 
like the VFS: slow, inefficient, and with bugs that pop up once in a 
while.

Once we start working on VFS defragmenters, I think that should be a 
sign that we should consider moving the code into the kernel ;-)

I should also note that most compressed formats like tar and .zip are 
completely unappropiate for the purpose, as their structure doesn't 
allow for efficiently writing to them.
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