[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

[spaetz]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:31:19AM +0200, Jiri Klement wrote:
> Why you need to check for tileset completness? File format is defined
> to contain offset to all possible tiles followed by tile data (which
> maybe zero length). It's not possible to send incomplete tilesets.

Right now it is, and many upload single tiles only. It's a significan part of the upload handler to decide whether it's a complete tileset.
Some need to e.g. split their tilesets in across serveral upload files as their ISP's proxy only allows small files to be uploaded, apparently.

> Btw. Is tilesets unzipping done on hdd or ramdisc? Using ramdisc
> should improve performance a bit without extra effort.
 
It's unzipped to the disk partition where the tiles are. So the final mv to their end destination is cheap. Unzipping into RAM disk and then moving them to the partition were equally expensive. We had tried a RAM disk before on the dev server.

spaetz