Store Varnish cache in hard disk

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Published on 2010-04-07T16:49:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 16:53 UTC
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Hello,

The situation is:
Im building PHP application, and need http caching.
Varnish is great, and lots of people tell me that Varnish store the cached data in RAM. But I want it cached in hard disk.

Is there any way to store the Varnish cached data in hard disk?

thanks.

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