On 20-abr-09, at 10:08, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
> On 20-abr-09, at 06:33, pub crawler wrote:
>
>> As such, was thinking about doing the following to utilize the  
>> IOCache
>> of Cherokee:
>>
>> 1. Map a network share from Ubuntu (via Samba) to Windows server  
>> which
>> runs our website.
>> 2. Create a new website profile in Cherokee to handle the  
>> images.website.com
>> 3. Enable IOCache for the JPG, GIF and PNG files.
>>
>> Is anyone doing this or similar thing with Cherokee currently?  We  
>> are
>> running a Gbit link between the Cherokee box and the webserver, so I
>> expect things to be somewhat slower than in the same machine, but  
>> once
>> cached by Cherokee, it should fly. Basically want to get the load off
>> of Windows, use the speed and ever increasing features of Cherokee to
>> serve such and utilize caching of Cherokee so we aren't obliterating
>> the drives all day getting the same files from disk over and over.
>>
>> Is this a an alright idea? Anyone doing anything remotely similar?
>
> I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work.


I'd like to retract my earlier statement. There's currently a bug in  
Samba that causes many problems when using Cherokee to serve files of  
a CIFS mount:

   https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4527

(The most worrying thing is that the bug was reported on 2007-04..)

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