Re: everything is a file ..

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Problem is how you reliably detect these infinite objects without first
> going into VM mode for all objects without a content-length header, or
> defer to make such object public until fully cached.
>
> The main problems arise because Squid allows more than one client to a
> object retreival. If this isn't allowed then we can quite easily fiddle
> around with these areas, to for example make a transition from disk to
> non-disk in the middle of a retreival to solve the "infinite object"
> issue.

Ok. I'll start ripping bits and pieces out of the code on modio and
see what happens.

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Adrian Chadd			The Law of Software Development and
<adrian@creative.net.au>	Envelopment at MIT:
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