[Opensim-users] Database overview needed

[Jeff Ames]

There is some existing documentation at
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Database:Documentation and the pages
linked there.

As for assets versus inventory items, an asset is the object itself,
whereas the inventory item simply points to the asset (via the asset
ID), and adds some information about the asset that the inventory
needs to be aware of, such as permissions.

When assets are modified, a copy is created, since we can't be sure
that there is only one reference to the original asset.

(I believe this is accurate, but those of you more familiar with
current asset handling, please correct me if I'm mistaken.)

Jeff