Re: [squid-users] squid cluster with shared storage.

On 1/18/07, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007, Pranav Desai wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to setup a cluster of 2-3 squid machines with some
> > shared storage so that once cached the objects can be accessed by all
> > 3. I dont know what kind of shared storage we will use, but I want to
> > figure it out in theory.
>
> Not yet. Its one of the things I'd like to see possible with any storage
> manager rewrite.

Hmm ... ok thanks ...

> > I am not sure if this is feasible since I believe each squid stores
> > some metadata about the objects on the disk. If not, then is there a
> > better way to do it ?
>
> Each copy of Squid keeps a copy of the index in memory. That would have
> to be 'shared' between each Squid somehow.
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>

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