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

[Melanie]

Hi,

funny you would suggest that. That is one of the code paths I 
suggested removing a long time ago, and was booed and rejected.

Melanie


Justin Clark-Casey 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-----
>> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
>> [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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