'Re: Upgrade from Varnish 3 to 4'

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List:       varnish-misc
Subject:    Re: Upgrade from Varnish 3 to 4
From:       Per Buer <perbu () varnish-software ! com>
Date:       2014-08-13 15:57:13
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Varnish doesn't care about the contents of the file.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jensen, Kristian <krjensen@ebay.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> We are about to upgrade from 3 to 4, and have discussed whether we should
> delete .bin file or not.
>
>
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> Some believe that we should delete it so that varnish can "start from a
> fresh."
>
>
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> I personally think it is a bad solution, since varnish then write the file
> from the beginning again, and auto expand it every time there is a need for
> more space. This will cause fragmentation on and unnecessary operations on
> the SSD disk.
>
>
>
> Is there any reason to delete the file during an upgrade?
>
>
>
> Kristian Jensen
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<div dir="ltr">No.<div><br></div><div>Varnish doesn&#39;t care about the contents of \
the file.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On \
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jensen, Kristian <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:krjensen@ebay.com" target="_blank">krjensen@ebay.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">

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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u>  <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are about to upgrade from 3 to 4, and have \
discussed whether we should delete .bin file or not.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p \
class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u>  <u></u></span></p> <p \
class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Some believe that we should delete it so that \
varnish can "start from a fresh."<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span \
lang="EN-GB"><u></u>  <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I \
personally think it is a bad solution, since varnish then write the file from the \
beginning again, and auto expand it every time there is a need for more space. This \
will cause fragmentation on and unnecessary operations  on the SSD \
disk.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u>  \
<u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Is there any reason to \
delete the file during an upgrade?<span class="HOEnZb"><font \
color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font \
color="#888888"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u>  <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kristian Jensen<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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