[sldev] Re: [META] Exciting reuter's post about OpenSim

[Argent Stonecutter]

From: "Tim Shephard" <tshephard at gmail.com>
> ok, you're right, Linden Lab is going to have a billion gazillion
> pentabyte harddrives to manage the entire world's inventory.   That
> scales so well - I mean really, it's worked out great so far.

It works for google. :)

In any case, regardless of whether you've got Linden Labs inventory  
on Fred's Grid, Fred's going to need inventory to remain saved from  
one sim to the next on *his* grid. The lack of an inventory server in  
OpenSIM *will* have to be addressed. I agree with Nicolasz that  
client-side inventory support will be part of it, but they will also  
need grid-side inventory as well. Not because of copyright, but  
because of efficiency and mobility. You don't want to have to build  
your inventory from scratch when you visit FredGrid from soneone  
else's computer, or have the dozen textures in each of the 300 prims  
in your Chameleon Grand Dragon avatar re-uploaded every time you log  
in to the DragonHome grid.