[Bf-committers] Google Summer of Code Idea

[Alexander Ewering]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Timothy Baldridge wrote:

> I did some tests with this in Win32 and linux. The file system was
> fast enough for a file per frame setup. Just make sure you divide the
> frames up into groups of ~1000 frames and put them in their own
> folders. NTFS starts choking around 30,000 files in one directory.

I can second this. The funny thing is that I *never* used an SQL database,
instead I always developed my own file- and directory-based database
layouts. The filesystem is a very robust database engine most of the time,
if the layout / structuring of data is done in a good way :)

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