[Opensim-dev] multiple, empty, root inventory folders

[Ryan McDougall]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 10:28 -0700, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Justin Clark-Casey
> <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Multiple roots were the result of various code bugs.  I actually hope
> >  now that we have these nailed, and that all the current multiple
> >  inventories are now historical stock.
> >
> >  If this doesn't prove to be the case, I think it would be worth adding a
> >  multiple inventory check on inventory service startup.  I'm loathe to
> >  add anything more than this due to the code and startup cost, which
> >  would only be going to counter a situation which should in theory never
> >  occur.
> 

> 
> I've been called at 3am -- and called others at 3am -- too many times
> (due to unexpected sanity violations on databases and poor handling of
> it by codebases).  I personally don't like unplanned failure modes.
> I'd like to see some sort of degradation strategy built into the
> infrastructure to help provide a highly-available system.
> 
> -Kyle H

Indeed. However its important to note that since OpenSim is alpha
quality software, there is just no way anyone should be thinking OpenSim
will give them high availability -- yet. 

Alpha-time is time to make a clean base that can be used without need
for hacking about for years to come. Lets make our designs clean while
its possible.

Cheers,