Re: [squid-users] Squid behaviour during a failure

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Ramon Moreno <rammor1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using 8 diskd cache dirs.
>
> What happens when one fails?
>
> Curious as the documentation says to put a separate cache per disk
> instead of raid 5. That being said, will squid still run if a cache
> dir dies?

It will crash and burn, until the failed cache_dir is removed from the config.
Improvements are on the roadmap, see
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/CacheDirFailover

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/kinkie