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

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> I believe the general concensus was to support all three (four?) asset 
> server configs (internal, local, grid, hg(?))  but refactor the code paths.

Could you give a mailing list reference to this consensus discussion?  I don't remember seeing it but it may have been 
before my time (which means it was more than a year ago).

Local mode has never made much sense to me, so I would like to see some of the arguments for it.

>  
> While I do understand the confusion, I have already shown how we could 
> re-arrange the services so that we get a uniform set of interfaces - 
> ideally, the config option should turn from specifying a mode to 
> specifying a module and its config.
>  
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
> Tribal Media AB
> 
>  > Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 22:29:18 +0000
>  > From: melanie at t-data.com
>  > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>  > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] asset_database = "local" or "grid"?
>  >
>  > 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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