Re: [need for advices] fastCaching

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 fabien.marty@free.fr wrote: > > A quick review of the code shows no handling of corrupt cache files. > > I suggest writing the file length into the cache file and some > > signature > > bytes > > as a prefix/suffix to the cache data to ensure data integrity. > > With FileLocking on (default), it's very very difficult to have > corrupted cache files. But adding a test is possible. A md5 hash would > be perfect but we would have to do some benchs. Because adding only file > length has to be faster I think. > > Fabien I've had instances of corrupt cache on Digital Unix using NFS pretty often (mostly empty files), so this is important, though it could be optional. - Brent