Re: Improving Ext2 Reliability

Oskar Pearson (oskar@is.co.za)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:14:27 +0200


Hi

> > The cache takes quite a long time to rebuild and I don't feel like wasting
> > bandwidth to save 30 minutes :)
>
> You've missed a major concern: a cache with corrupt data is a disservice
> to your users. Squid does *not* verify that the data contained within the
> cache is correct. Some very good points to this effect have been made in

Squid-1.2 now includes data like this in the actual cache objects...
including the URL... it throws it away if the on-disk object URL and
the one that the client is actually trying to get is different...

Oskar

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