Upgrade from Varnish 3 to 4

[Per Buer]

No.

Varnish doesn't care about the contents of the file.


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

>  Hi,
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> 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.
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> Is there any reason to delete the file during an upgrade?
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> Kristian Jensen
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