<div dir="ltr">No.<div><br></div><div>Varnish doesn't care about the contents of the file.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jensen, Kristian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krjensen@ebay.com" target="_blank">krjensen@ebay.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are about to upgrade from 3 to 4, and have discussed whether we should delete .bin file or not.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Some believe that we should delete it so that varnish can “start from a fresh.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I personally think it is a bad solution, since varnish then write the file from the beginning again, and auto expand it every time there is a need for more space. This will cause fragmentation on and unnecessary operations
on the SSD disk.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Is there any reason to delete the file during an upgrade?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kristian Jensen<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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