Re: [SQU] feature request

I think Nikita is already working on interesting RAID stuff, including
hot swap, in the SourceForge CVS raid branch. (Still a good ways from
production Squids, though, I would think.)

Florin Andrei wrote:

> I'm experimenting with Squid on a nifty SGI 1200 box, running Red Hat
> Linux 7.0 ;-) I have 4 HDDs, one for the system, and the other 3 just
> for Squid (3 separate cache_dir's).
>
> I've noticed that, if you add a new cache_dir and run "squid -z", the
> new swap dirs are created, and the old cache is preserved. This is fine.
> But... Imagine this scenario:
> You have a nice Unix box with hot-pluggable HDDs. You hot-add a new HDD
> in the system, and you want to dedicate it to Squid. But your proxy
> service is a critical one, so you don't want to stop Squid. If you try
> to run "squid -z", you get "...already running" and stuff like that.
> Wouldn't be nice to be able to create new swap dirs even if Squid is
> already running? And then just add the new cache to squid.conf, then run
> "squid -k reconfigure" and that's it!
> Another possible advantage: if you already have multiple cache_dir's,
> and one is corrupted, you just comment out its entry in squid.conf,
> reconfigure Squid, umount the disk, reformat it, mount, uncomment the
> entry, run "squid -z" and there you are. cache_dir recovery without
> stopping the service! Way cool...
>
> What do you think?

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