Leave out fileserver hashing from worker desc

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Martin Polanka 8 years ago
parent bc46d8dcf6
commit a3fc1c69a7

@ -1061,10 +1061,9 @@ chosen and implemented.
#### Caching mechanism
As described in fileserver section stored supplementary files have special
filenames which reflects hashes of their content. As such there are no
duplicates stored in fileserver. Worker can use feature too and caches these
files for some while and saves precious bandwidth. This means there has to be
Worker can use caching mechanism based on files from fileserver under one
condition, provided files has to have unique name. If uniqueness is fulfilled
then precious bandwidth can be saved using cache. This means there has to be
system which can download file, store it in cache and after some time of
inactivity delete it. Because there can be multiple worker instances on some
particular server it is not efficient to have this system in every worker on its
@ -1076,7 +1075,7 @@ exactly needed. But mainly it would be single-failure component if it would stop
working it is quite problem. So there was chosen another solution which assumes
worker has access to specified cache folder, to this folder worker can download
supplementary files and copy them from here. This means every worker has the
\possibility to maintain downloads to cache, but what is worker not able to
possibility to maintain downloads to cache, but what is worker not able to
properly do is deletion of unused files after some time. For that single-purpose
component is introduced which is called 'cleaner'. It is simple script executed
within cron which is able to delete files which were unused for some time.

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