Re: everything is a file ..

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2000, at 12:07, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote:
>
> > ok, whilst hacking at some more ideas, I still want some clarification
> > as to why having everything as a file is a bad idea. I would like
> > some people to dump to me why it is bad to have every StoreEntry require
> > a backing squidfs file, because I'd like to see how many of them I
> > could "optimise out" with some ideas.
>
> what do you exactly mean? a separate backing file for each StoreEntry?
>
> > (yes, I can think of a whole slur of reasons why its bad, but I can
> > then think of a whole slur of ways to make them go away .. :-)

Like in squid-1.x , even temporary files are allocated a disk file.
After doing some evaluation of the code for modio v2 + further commloops
code, I've realised that squid-NOVM would actually be the best choice.
(which is actually kinda scary. :-)

Adrian

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