[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

>> If client A uploads a tar with tiles 1, 2, 3, and later B uploads  
>> a tar
>> with tiles 10, 11, 3, then you have two choices:
>>
>> 2. replace the tile in-place in A's archive, which would require  
>> taking
>> apart both tar files and re-assembling them.
>
> You just need to delete the file from A and keep the new file in B.
> Once A is empty you can delete that file as well.

Which would be the same as my option (1) which you have'nt quoted  
above;-)... actually "deleting" the file from, say, a tar archive  
wouldn't gain you anything storage-wise as you cannot shorten the  
tar, so it's enough to simply drop the old reference from the index.  
Plus you'll need the reverse index to detect whether the file is  
"empty".

Bye
Frederik

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