Re: [squid-users] Why squid -z

From: Ric <lists@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:48:44 -0800

On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:25 AM, Angela Williams wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Ric wrote:
>> I'm wondering why we require "squid -z" before starting up Squid for
>> the first time. Is there some reason why Squid shouldn't do this
>> automatically when necessary?
>
> Just a simple scenario?
> I use a separate cache file system for all my many squid boxes.
> Now for some reason one of the boxes get bounced and my squid cache
> filesystem
> fails to mount but squid comes up happily and say Oh look I don't
> have any
> cache directory structure so let me make one! Root filesystem is
> limited in
> space and then this dirty great big directory structure is created
> and then
> gets used by squid. In the twinkling of an eye the root filesystem
> is full!
>
> Ever tried to solve this kind of problem when the server is hundreds
> of
> kilometers away? Its phun!
>
> Give me squid -z!!
>
> Cheers
> Ang

I'm wondering if this is better solved with a directive in squid.conf
to disallow (or allow if you prefer) the automatic creation of the
cache structure.

Ric
Received on Tue Feb 26 2008 - 13:48:58 MST

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