[sldev] DB vs. Asset vs Simulation

[kelly at lindenlab.com]

> As far as i know (and it make sense), eveything but textures files,
> sound, animation are in database (probably mysql).
> You can't rsync that ^^

This is incorrect. :)
My overview is at the top of the inventory page:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Inventory_OS

Pertaining to this discussion:
Items that you see in world are being simulated and are not in the DB or
the asset system but live in memory in the simulator process.  Everything
that is a thing (can be rezed or viewed) lives in the asset server, not
the DB.  We actually save (serialize) the state of each simulator once an
hour to a file and save that file in the asset system.  File type
operations on 'simstate' conceptually make some sense.

 - Kelly