Re: everything is a file ..

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Adrian Chadd 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.
>
> Streaming services returning a HTTP object of infinite size.
>
> Extra load on disk sub-system for objects which are not cached.

Ok, imagine that the disk subsystem/FS could be written in such a way
that non-cacheable objects/streaming objects don't ever hit the disk.
So rather than having the complexity there for *everything* it will
only exist for non-disk objects.

Another idea is that since IO can be done now in pages rather than
random-sized chunks, once the code has been optimized somewhat I think
this may become a non-issue.

In any case, if someone wants to do a little research and patch squid-cvs
so all clients of cacheable objects try to get it from disk, I'd be
immensely grateful. My hands are in optimising the comm and storeClientCopy
code, and I think I'm going to hit a brick wall until some storage manager
code changes happen ..

ADrian

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