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

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:51:56 -0800

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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.)