Re: [squid-users] cache_dir file systems

* On 07/09/06 21:54 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
| On Thursday 07 September 2006 21:22, Dan Thomson wrote:
| > I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'm curious about what
| > people think are the "best" file systems to use for your cache dirs.
| >
| > I've read that ReiserFS and XFS are good choices... is there an
| > optimal request rate/request size to take into account? Any other hard
| > drive tweaking that have yielded favourable results?
|
| I'm using ext3 and happy with it so far. :) All I remember is that ReiserFS
| was a bad choice for the cache_dir in terms of performance. Journalling
| made things slow. XFS was among the best. I hope I remember it correctly.
|
| A fast hard disk and avoiding redundancy on RAIDs like RAID-1 will probably
| help.
|
| I'd like to extend the question though: does anyone have experience how
| much slower the cache becomes when using Linux' LVM? Time and again I
| start to become unhappy with my partitioning scheme.

Where does this discussion put other OSes other than Linux? For example,
we don't use ext3/reiserfs/xfs on FreeBSD.
When the discussion goes the direction of the OS, I sometimes do feel
that we need to split the list for sanity purposes: squid-users-linux,
squid-users-bsd, etc.. because some of obvious reasons. That way
limux-centric discussions can go on a separate list, while *bsd-centric
ones can go to the other..

-Wash

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