Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2006, 00:51 UTC
Message-ID: <457A08AC.8030100@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081648160.3516@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
>> In Squid 2.6:
>>    collapsed_forwarding on
>>    refresh_stale_window <seconds>
>> (apply the latter only to stanzas where you want "readahead" of
>> about-to-expire cache entries)
> 
> Yeah, those look like the Right Thing (tm) to do.
> 
> That said, I'm not personally convinced that there is much point to using 
> netfilter for transparent proxying. Why not just use separate ports for 
> squid and for apache?
>

Yeah, this is pretty trivial since one can just do redirects. However, I still think a backend cache is better, since it can detach itself from Apache when appropriate (e.g. the background refresh scenario, or timeout.)

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