[Opensim-dev] asset_database = "local" or "grid"?

[Adam Johnson]

+1, this makes a lot more sense, and I think it will save a lot of
confusion in the future.

Adam J / adjohn

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Justin Clark-Casey
<jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Chris Hart wrote:
>> Setting asset_database to "local" will store your assets in a .db sqlite
>> database on your file system, and not in MySQL at all. If you run in
>> grid mode, you should always set this to "grid" to avoid confusion
>> unless you are connecting to someone else's grid and want your assets to
>> be stored locally and not on their asset server.
>>
>> I have to say I made that same mistake when first starting out with
>> opensim and had to migrate all my assets over to my database server.
>> Several others have made the same mistake and I've had to help them to
>> migrate their assets too - is the local storage model really that widely
>> used? Should it actually be the default? For standalone I'm guessing it
>> is  ignored(?), but in grid mode I've found it just causes pain and
>> confusion.
>
> Chris is right - I find the asset_database switch annoying because it catches me out on occasion.
>
> The problem with using local assets on a grid is one of grid asset blakanization - people coming to your region can't
> see your assets (because their requests go to the grid asset service rather than your local asset store) and when you go
> to other people's regions you can't rez objects you created on your local region.
>
> But it strikes me that now, if you wanted to retain your regions assets locally, you could set up your region as a
> hypergrid enabled region, as Hypergrid regions use the local asset store (there is conceptually no global).
>
> In view of this, I'd like to completely remove the asset_database option.  This would mean that in standalone and
> hypergrid modes, the db used would always be local and in grid mode the grid asset service would always be used.
>
> Are there any objections to this?
>
>>
>> Chris / Strawberry Fride
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Ai Austin
>> Sent: 01 February 2009 17:12
>> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>> Subject: [Opensim-dev] asset_database = "local" or "grid"?
>>
>> I have MySQL running on the same system that the UGAIM servers are
>> running on at the moment, though we want to separate some of them out...
>>
>> I am wondering if I set  asset_database = "grid" rather than
>> asset_database = "local"  is there any performance penalty... or will
>> it run identically if the assets are in fact local anyway?
>>
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