Re: Change to store swapmeta: addition of a new type

On Sat, May 20, 2006, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> fre 2006-05-19 klockan 08:32 +0800 skrev Adrian Chadd:
>
> > I've added a new metadata type which records the object size if known.
> > Since its always known for COSS stores it means the object size is
> > written in as part of the metadata - and therefore allows COSS to 'know'
> > what the object size is when reading and rebuilding. The header isn't
> > required for swapin; nor is it checked at all in the other stores.
> > (It could be used as a further consistency check for aufs/ufs/diskd
> > during rebuild.)
>
> Looks fine to me. The meta format is extensible for exactly this
> purpose.
>
> We should also silence Squid-2.5 when encountering this meta tag to
> allow downgrades...

Ok, I'll commit a patch to squid-2.5 after I commit this.

Adrian
Received on Sat May 20 2006 - 06:03:43 MDT