[squid-users] Should I "--enable-truncate" on Linux/ReiserFS?

Red Hat is enabling the "--enable-truncate" option in their Squid packages.
Is the use of this option advisable in my circumstances?

I'm running Squid 2.5S12 on RHEL4. My single cache is on a ReiserFS (v3.6)
filesystem, mounted with the noatime and notail options, on a very low
latency SCSI drive.

Red Hat has always been, ahem, unenthusiastic about ReiserFS so it is not a
consideration in their planning/testing.

Can someone with experience in these circumstances advise me on the
performance impact of using "--enable-truncate" (versus outright file
deletion) on this cache configuration?

Thanks.
Received on Thu Feb 09 2006 - 06:53:08 MST