[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

[spaetz]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Knut Arne Bj?rndal wrote:
> I asked a bit on #osm, and it seems the current problem is basically
> the write speed on the drive where tiles are stored. This proposal
> will not cause any less data to be stored to disk, so it will not
> really make any difference for uploads anyway. What is needed is more
> I/O bandwith to the disk, which it seems is on it's way in the form of
> new harddrives.

That disk is currently connected over NFS and nobody knows what filesystem is on the disk itself. So using local disks should make many of the problems go away.