Re: COSS still under developement?

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 12:24 +0200, Stolle, Martin wrote:

> We use coss on our production proxies with squid-2.6. It has got a really big performance.
>
> Switching to aufs wouldn't be an alternative, so we have to wait vor 3.1

Is there anybody planning on fixing/improving COSS in Squid v3.1? I
would like to see COSS work on Squid3 development plans, but it is
pretty much useless to add it without somebody committing to fix COSS by
the beginning of 2008.

Thank you,

Alex.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:henrik@henriknordstrom.net]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2007 03:29
> An: leongmzlist
> Cc: Squid
> Betreff: Re: [squid-users] COSS still under developement?
>
> On ons, 2007-10-03 at 17:19 -0700, leongmzlist wrote:
> > I remember reading somewhere coss will be removed from the 3.0
> > release, just want to make sure it's won't get abandoned since our
> > cache data is really important to us.
>
> It's not removed, but downgraded to experimental for 3.0, with updated COSS support scheduled for 3.1 if there is sufficient interest in having the improvements forwardported.
>
> There was talk about removing COSS from the 3.0 release as it's known to be unstable and not suitable for production use in squid-3, but it was then decided to not fork 3.0 from the 3.x tree before release and COSS stayed.
>
> There is no plans on removing COSS from Squid as such, only the 3.0 release as there has not been any developer resources available to update the Squid-3 COSS implementation and it's far behind Sqiud-2 in that area.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Thu Oct 04 2007 - 22:44:13 MDT