On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Ric wrote: > On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:25 AM, Angela Williams wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Ric wrote: > >> I'm wondering why we require "squid -z" before starting up Squid for > >> the first time. Is there some reason why Squid shouldn't do this > >> automatically when necessary? > > Just a simple scenario? > > I use a separate cache file system for all my many squid boxes. > > Now for some reason one of the boxes get bounced and my squid cache > > filesystem > > fails to mount but squid comes up happily and say Oh look I don't > > have any > > cache directory structure so let me make one! Root filesystem is > > limited in > > space and then this dirty great big directory structure is created > > and then > > gets used by squid. In the twinkling of an eye the root filesystem > > is full! > > > > Ever tried to solve this kind of problem when the server is hundreds > > of > > kilometers away? Its phun! > > > > Give me squid -z!! > I'm wondering if this is better solved with a directive in squid.conf > to disallow (or allow if you prefer) the automatic creation of the > cache structure. To me this does not make sense really. I setup a squid server, create the squid cache structure and start squid. I can count the numbers of time I have had to rebuild a fresh cache structure on the fingers of 1 hand. Replace a fault harddrive, increase or decrease the cache size and thats it! Cheers Ang -- Angela Williams Enterprise Outsourcing Unix/Linux & Cisco spoken here! Bedfordview awilliams@xxxxxxxxx Gauteng South Africa Smile!! Jesus Loves You!!
