[sldev] SL Database purge

[Felix Duesenburg]

Dahlia Trimble wrote:
>> >From what I've seen of Opensim, there are several optional asset storage
> mechanisms available that can be chosen in a configuration file. It's also
> open source so an interested party could define a new mechanism and plug it
> in if one wished.
> 
> I don't have much faith in the "files in a folder" approach as from what I
> remember from my operating system class (quite a while ago), filename
> searches are linear searches.
> 

File systems vary widely in their efficiency or suitability for any
specific purpose. I'd like to think that we're living on Reiser4 here,
which challenges the distinction between a database and a file system.
Such a shame how it suffers from its creator's dire circumstances at the
moment.