Re: [SQU] feature request

From: Florin Andrei <florin125@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 06:37:07 -0000

>From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@hem.passagen.se>
>
>Hmm.. did not have this problem in the setup I made.. it happily allowed
>squid -z while the first was running. Don't know if it was because we
>used Squid-2.2, or because of the chroot_dir directive, or because of
>one of my other patches..

I was running Red Hat Linux 7.0 with it's supplied Squid RPM. Maybe it's
because of the RPM...
I think i'll rebuild the RPM anyway.

>(http://squid.sourceforge.net/hno/patch-2.2.html). But I am not sure
>reconfigure is capable of adding the directories (always did a full
>restart of Squid)

It is. I tried it.

>Anyway, "squid -z" for the ufs based stores (ufs,diskd,aufs) is nothing
>more than a loop which creates the L1 and L2 directories, so it can
>easily be done with some other program if Squid refuses to do it..

So maybe even a Perl script will do it (but slower).

>But the good thing is that there is already work going on along these
>lines as part of a much larger project changing the way Squid manages
>the disks. Expected to appear in Squid-2.6 or later..

Squid-2.6... Wow... Is there any hope to have it stable in 2001?

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