[Tilesathome] Overall Status

Jason Reid osm at bowvalleytechnologies.com
Tue Jun 19 00:35:12 BST 2007


Dave Hansen wrote:
> The tiles are all stored in a mysql database, right?
>
> What's the reason for this?  Have we run up against some kind of
> filesystem limit that makes storing them on the plain filesystem
> infeasible?  
>
> Just curious...
>
> -- Dave
>
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No, we've moved from a system of storing and doing all lookups from the 
database to storing them and accessing them directly from the file 
system using a series of mod_rewrite rules, the only time that the 
database is talked to is if the file can not be found for the most part.

Jason Reid




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