Re: COSS (squidfs) inital code

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:00:13 +1000

Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 May 1999, Arjan de Vet wrote:
>
> > What's the general idea on SquidFS? Make a general SquidFS API first
> > such that multiple approaches can be tried and compared easily?
>
> Yes.

I concur.

> AFAIK, Duane is working on such an interface. I would vote against any
> #ifdef-ed file system support. Ideally, all optional and/or replacable
> modules should be removed from Squid's core. Imagine you have SquidFS-1,
> SquidFS-2, ..., SquidFS-N, all #ifdef-ed. IMO, #ifdef is a useful hack,
> not a useful development paradigm.

As a heavy patcher with #if-def's, I agree with Alex on this as well,
though I'm pretty damn guilty of cluttering up code with conditionals.

D
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