On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 1. Purge vs. Ban > ----------------- > > The CLI and VCL commands are named "purge", but they don't, they > add a ban to the list of bans. > > I would actually like to rename purge to ban and add a real purge > function that gets rid of the current object (ie: one found in the > cache) and possibly its "Vary:" siblings. > > Purge does sound like it will be gone, whereas "ban" better explains > what happens when we use the delayed regexp checks. > > Obviously, if I co-opt "purge" to mean something different, backwards > compat is not possible, and all your purge scripts and VCLs with > purge facilities will break.
Can you explain what is the effective difference between a real purge and a ban? Would both still kill all the Vary siblings? Other than possibly releasing the memory quicker, I'm not sure why I should care :-) Ric _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
