[Opensim-dev] AssetServer Observations and Suggestions

[Lc]

having a storage asset on 1.5mb seems to be unrealistic imo.
We should not impose those change without real studies.
Another point is the average IT  knowledge of our users:
Most of them are just able to start opensim and i fear the flood on the help
chan about broken database and other issue like that...


The end of the story is easy to imagine : opensim s*ks cause it lost all my
asset...

Sm






On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Frank Nichols <frank at thenichols.net> wrote:

> I like the idea of shifting responsibility for user storage costs closer
> to the user. Region maybe a good place to do this.
>
> Frank
>
> Charles Krinke wrote:
> > We have been studying the assets table on OSGrid as it heads toward
> > the "disk full" stage and I have a couple of observations and am
> > heading towards a suggestion. Maybe this is already accounted for in
> > the "Cable Beach" project, at which point, this will only indicate
> > that I did not read all the exchanges carefully enough.
> >
> > It appears to me that we are storing on the MySQL data store at the
> > assetServer on a grid every edit of every script, terrainImage and
> > clothingItem amongst other things. So, my first observation is that we
> > appear to be storing all the older, obsolete items that can no longer
> > be accessed.
> >
> > Additionally, it appears to me that we are also storing things that
> > could arguably be stored on the regions datastore, such as the
> > terrainImage.
> >
> > Now, to the beginnings of a suggestion. It seems to me that each
> > avatar will have a "home" region. And that perhaps that is the place
> > to store the items in an avatars inventory. Things like scripts,
> > notecards, textures and the like.
> >
> > At that point, the assetServer on a grid could be used to store only
> > pointers (or URL's) to each avatars inventory on his or her home region.
> >
> > So, by doing that, we start shifting the ever increasing disk storage
> > requirements of a grid back to the regions distributed around the
> > internet.
> >
> > Again, perhaps Cable Beach is already doing this, and if so, this is
> > great. If not, I put out these ideas and duck as the tomatoes start
> > flying.
> >
> > Charles
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