Varnish Dirty Caching

[Denis Brækhus]

----- Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at linpro.no> wrote:
> Christoph <varnish at held-im-ruhestand.de> writes:
> > So what is dirty caching and why use it? Think of a very unreliable
> > backend. If varnish can't reach it's backend, it will simply return
> > the last content it has (even if the content is stale). That way i
> > can cover hickups.
> It's on our list for 2.0, and will probably hit trunk in late July.

Way cool, really looking forward to that feature! As I stated in a different thread it's more often other parts of the system that break than varnish  so having such a failsafe enables us to do a lot more fault tolerant setups.

Regards
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