[squid-users] Squid Unable to Serve While Rebuilding Disk Cache After Unclean Shutdown

My squid instances are frequently restarted uncleanly (embedded system,
long story), and each time they try to rebuild their cache with the
message "Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid3".

However, I'd much prefer them to simply drop all that cache and start
again fresh, because the time they're unable to handle requests while
rebuilding is unacceptable.

Is there a way I can configure squid to ignore an inconsistent cache? Or
have it somehow serve requests while rebuilding? I could add something
like `rm /var/spool/squid3/*` to the init script, but that'd be terribly
kludgey.

Our squid.conf is very similar to the one posted here:
https://code.google.com/p/liquid-galaxy/source/browse/trunk/gnu_linux/etc/squid/squid.conf
Received on Wed Sep 07 2011 - 20:01:21 MDT