Re: ACL based selection of cache_dir

Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
>
> What do you think of allowing cache_dir selection to be controlled
> by configuration and specifically ACL's?

interesting.

> regex-based acl's are easy to implement to select a cache_dir, and it
> alone is already quite helpful feature.
> We here have cheep local bandwidth and expensive international. I guess
> this is very common. People tend to use cache for everything, and we
> try hard to keep cache from getting polluted by local objects. Yet it
> would be nice to have some store for local objects too, but it should
> be strictly controlled.

good point. Had not thought about that earlier.

> Also, on very large disks, (like 73GB), we can force known large
> objects (mp3, zip, exe, cab, etc) to be placed on vast inner area of
> disk, increasing average object size, and keeping those large files
> for longer time. infrequent access to them, and their large size
> reduces performance impact of not being cached by OS filesystem.

Maybe.

/Henrik
Received on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 16:55:01 MDT